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- 1:46Speaker 1: Hello everybody, and welcome to Honeybatterer Radio. I'm not even
- 1:49Speaker 1: gonna bother with the whole coming to you live garbage.
- 1:52Speaker 2: This is a Rantsirker number.
- 1:55Speaker 1: We're kind of two nineteen teachers outgrape, the Catholic chick
- 2:00Speaker 1: and the boy Scouts.
- 2:01Speaker 2: Well.
- 2:02Speaker 1: I don't know for sure, but I have seen or
- 2:05Speaker 1: heard of this recent data. I was gonna just like
- 2:11Speaker 1: talk more about politics today, but I don't know.
- 2:15Speaker 2: I don't know if this is something you guys were
- 2:17Speaker 2: interested in.
- 2:18Speaker 1: I think that there are multiple intersections between men's issues
- 2:22Speaker 1: and other things like culture and education and politics, but
- 2:29Speaker 1: I think that we're going to take a break from that.
- 2:32Speaker 1: Although you know, things aren't really as dire these days
- 2:35Speaker 1: now that now that we have four of the five
- 2:38Speaker 1: lions to form Voltron, you know what I mean?
- 2:43Speaker 3: Okay, yeah, no, or the four of the five dudes
- 2:51Speaker 3: in the Battle of the Planets.
- 2:53Speaker 1: Yeah, I was thinking about that too. G Force Yeah, yeah,
- 2:56Speaker 1: the yeah, yeah, the G Force. Like to the jet
- 3:01Speaker 1: there's five of them, right, I know, there's yeah, I know,
- 3:04Speaker 1: there's five Voltron pilots, and so we're just waiting on
- 3:07Speaker 1: the fifth.
- 3:08Speaker 3: You know, we're just waiting on kop or whatever his
- 3:11Speaker 3: name was, the one.
- 3:13Speaker 2: That made those Yeah, I remember that one. But anyway,
- 3:23Speaker 2: while we're waiting on that.
- 3:25Speaker 1: Uh, we're gonna look at this article from the Federalists.
- 3:30Speaker 1: It's it's a little it came out last month, but
- 3:32Speaker 1: it slipped past us, and it's it's pretty interesting. All
- 3:38Speaker 1: we'll say is, so there's this there's this popular like
- 3:43Speaker 1: idea or narrative out there that the Boy Scouts and
- 3:48Speaker 1: the Catholic Church are really predatory when it comes to children.
- 3:52Speaker 1: And when usually when they say that, they mean boys,
- 3:54Speaker 1: but they don't want to say boys. They just say
- 3:56Speaker 1: children because it means it's the Boy Scouts and it's
- 4:00Speaker 1: in you know, the Catholic Church. But as we have
- 4:04Speaker 1: been reporting on instances of teachers molesting their children, their
- 4:10Speaker 1: students rather and a lot of people, even on the
- 4:14Speaker 1: conservative side, sty sort of dismiss it, like, you know,
- 4:18Speaker 1: like there's something different about boys in school that they're
- 4:22Speaker 1: less affected that they want it, you know, the whole
- 4:25Speaker 1: South Park meme.
- 4:26Speaker 2: Nice, you know, Yeah.
- 4:29Speaker 3: I wish, I wish when I was a kid had
- 4:34Speaker 3: Halen song about this ship.
- 4:36Speaker 2: Mm hmmmmm. Was it like hot for teacher? Right?
- 4:41Speaker 1: Yeah?
- 4:41Speaker 3: Yeah, got it bad.
- 4:43Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, don Karen, sounds fine, thank you.
- 4:50Speaker 2: Oh yeah, I should have checked that all, even though
- 4:51Speaker 2: I think we're good.
- 4:53Speaker 1: So let's go out and take a look at this
- 4:54Speaker 1: article because it seems that the problem of child molestation
- 5:01Speaker 1: might be bigger in schools than it is in.
- 5:05Speaker 2: Both the Catholic Church and the Boy Scouts. So we're
- 5:08Speaker 2: gonna look at this.
- 5:08Speaker 1: I'm sharing the screen with you already, and I'm gonna
- 5:12Speaker 1: read through it and then when you want to comment, Karen,
- 5:15Speaker 1: if you want to say anything now before we get
- 5:17Speaker 1: into oh.
- 5:17Speaker 3: Yeah, no, how much you want to bet? This is
- 5:20Speaker 3: mostly female teacher driven because everybody gives male teachers, particularly
- 5:24Speaker 3: K to six, the stank eye, and you know, like
- 5:30Speaker 3: everybody's watching them like a hawk K to six male teachers.
- 5:35Speaker 1: So I'm not even sure, I'm not even sure that
- 5:37Speaker 1: that I think that male male teachers have a harder
- 5:41Speaker 1: time getting.
- 5:41Speaker 2: A job because of that. Yeah, of course teachers, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
- 5:46Speaker 4: No, that's why that's why they they they One of
- 5:51Speaker 4: the things that I, you know, like male teachers have
- 5:53Speaker 4: told me is that you know, like I mean, there
- 5:56Speaker 4: was one who taught my kids, both of my older
- 6:01Speaker 4: two kids when they were in grade six, right, But
- 6:04Speaker 4: he was a.
- 6:04Speaker 3: Mormon, and he was just like very very very very
- 6:12Speaker 3: it was very personable and very uh, very clean cut.
- 6:17Speaker 3: Like he was just like the most clean person on
- 6:21Speaker 3: the on the freaking planet in terms of like morality
- 6:24Speaker 3: and ship right, and so like he he stayed in
- 6:29Speaker 3: the classroom. But most of the male teachers in k
- 6:33Speaker 3: K to six ended up being principles, right, And it's
- 6:38Speaker 3: it's because they felt uncomfortable in the classroom because parents
- 6:44Speaker 3: would look at them funny and be like, why are
- 6:46Speaker 3: you even here, like these are little kids?
- 6:50Speaker 1: Yeah, and that you see the movie, the movie called
- 6:55Speaker 1: The Hunt with Mats Nicholson brought this up before.
- 6:59Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, oh yeah, yeah, no, that was that was awful.
- 7:06Speaker 3: You know, some little girl makes some shit up, right
- 7:11Speaker 3: because she's mad, right, Like she literally just had a
- 7:16Speaker 3: temper tantrum and made something up, and then all the
- 7:21Speaker 3: adults around her pressed her for details with leading questions,
- 7:26Speaker 3: and then she was like, yeah, he touched me there
- 7:28Speaker 3: and there and there, just like you suggested he might have,
- 7:32Speaker 3: you know, and and then it was just all of
- 7:34Speaker 3: a sudden, you know, like and I kissed him and
- 7:40Speaker 3: it's just like Okay, so some little six year old
- 7:43Speaker 3: girl has a freaking crush on her kindergarten teacher, right,
- 7:47Speaker 3: and he he sets a boundary, right, and then.
- 7:54Speaker 2: That's it.
- 7:56Speaker 3: It's over for him, right because all of the adults
- 8:00Speaker 3: around this little girl who's mad at him for setting
- 8:03Speaker 3: a boundary or all of a sudden like you touched her,
- 8:06Speaker 3: didn't you.
- 8:10Speaker 2: Yeah, it's definitely making a statement.
- 8:14Speaker 3: Powerful movie, yeah, powerful movie.
- 8:16Speaker 2: So yeah, very all right. Well yeah, so let's see
- 8:20Speaker 2: what the Federalist has.
- 8:23Speaker 1: To say regarding this article and then whenever you want
- 8:27Speaker 1: to butt in and go ahead.
- 8:28Speaker 2: So one in ten K through twelve students has been.
- 8:32Speaker 1: Sexually abused by a teacher. So you start off with
- 8:35Speaker 1: a with a data point. And to be fair, I
- 8:39Speaker 1: don't know, like it's it can be just as difficult
- 8:42Speaker 1: to sort of like treat this as an absolute as
- 8:45Speaker 1: a feminist statistic, you know, like I was just I
- 8:48Speaker 1: just had a guest on a Monday, military former military.
- 8:53Speaker 1: You can't call him a veteran because he was dishonorably
- 8:56Speaker 1: discharged after a false accusation, so he can only be
- 9:00Speaker 1: considered former military.
- 9:02Speaker 2: And uh, yeah, he and the reason why and.
- 9:06Speaker 1: I think this is is relevant because it is it
- 9:09Speaker 1: is along the same lines, and you're just looking in
- 9:11Speaker 1: the office direction.
- 9:13Speaker 2: The reason why this happened.
- 9:16Speaker 1: Was because in the military they were told that there
- 9:21Speaker 1: is a rape culture and that they had to so
- 9:24Speaker 1: therefore there must be convictions. And so the the Obama administration,
- 9:30Speaker 1: because that's when it was going on, they said, we
- 9:33Speaker 1: have to find we need to get convictions, and so
- 9:36Speaker 1: they because there have to be because we were.
- 9:38Speaker 2: Told this is a problem.
- 9:39Speaker 1: And so a lot of there's a lot of allegations
- 9:43Speaker 1: that go through and uh, they you know, even if
- 9:46Speaker 1: the like a lot of guys see prison time for nothing,
- 9:50Speaker 1: but even when they don't, even if the alligator, even
- 9:53Speaker 1: if charges are dropped, even if the police don't investigate,
- 9:56Speaker 1: it's enough to destroy their reputation anyway. And so guy
- 10:00Speaker 1: was dishonorably discharged. I mean, the worst thing he did.
- 10:03Speaker 1: He did he did engage in infidelity, which he confessed to,
- 10:09Speaker 1: but there was no there was no sexual assault, there
- 10:11Speaker 1: was no yeah, there was no coercion. There was there
- 10:15Speaker 1: was there was no force, nothing. It was all consensual.
- 10:19Speaker 1: But you know, because he was in I think in
- 10:23Speaker 1: a compromised position because he did something immoral with involving
- 10:27Speaker 1: his marriage, it was easier for the military to throw
- 10:32Speaker 1: the book at him at least enough to get him
- 10:34Speaker 1: dishonorably discharged.
- 10:36Speaker 2: And yeah, it's a mess.
- 10:37Speaker 1: So that this happens, and it all happens based on presumptions.
- 10:43Speaker 1: The presumption is if you tell the Pentagon that, hey,
- 10:48Speaker 1: rat culture is real, one in four women, you know
- 10:51Speaker 1: in college campuses, the same kind of thing, and then
- 10:54Speaker 1: you say, you have to get convictions and it's actually
- 10:57Speaker 1: really good.
- 10:57Speaker 2: Also, what he told me was the reason.
- 11:00Speaker 1: Why it happened under the Obama administration was because the Democrats.
- 11:04Speaker 1: And he said, look, I don't want to be partisan,
- 11:06Speaker 1: but this is just the truth. The Democrats want the
- 11:09Speaker 1: female vote. One of the ways you get the female
- 11:11Speaker 1: vote is to to essentially be a champion for women.
- 11:15Speaker 2: And then there's no easier way.
- 11:17Speaker 1: To do that than to champion a cause that they're
- 11:19Speaker 1: actually not that in danger of by saying, oh, yeah,
- 11:22Speaker 1: rape culture.
- 11:23Speaker 2: Right.
- 11:23Speaker 1: So yeah, so that's and that's the stuff that we're
- 11:27Speaker 1: stuck having to look at instead of the stuff.
- 11:30Speaker 2: Like what's in this article. So yeah, take the statistic
- 11:34Speaker 2: with a grain of salt. What intent, Maybe I don't know.
- 11:37Speaker 1: So the rate of sexual misconduct in public schools far
- 11:40Speaker 1: exceeds the high profile abuse scandals that rocked the Roman
- 11:45Speaker 1: Catholic Church and the Boy Scouts of America. So let's
- 11:51Speaker 1: let's get into that a little bit. I got a
- 11:52Speaker 1: super chat from somebody. Hold on a second, So I
- 11:57Speaker 1: got a super chat from blave Kaiser. He gets this
- 11:59Speaker 1: fine Bucks and says you should rest two weeks after
- 12:03Speaker 1: anal Karen Strawan twenty twenty four.
- 12:05Speaker 2: Oh, I don't know if you have you been quoted
- 12:07Speaker 2: as saying this.
- 12:08Speaker 3: Thus, no, no, I don't hold by that policy either.
- 12:13Speaker 3: So I mean it's a good idea to not overdo it.
- 12:16Speaker 2: But okay, is there still echo? Are you guys still
- 12:23Speaker 2: getting echo? Oh? You know what, it's me. That's why. Okay,
- 12:27Speaker 2: I got it. I got it. Now, hold on a second,
- 12:30Speaker 2: I gotta turn a microphone down. Okay, so the article
- 12:34Speaker 2: all right?
- 12:36Speaker 1: Every day, millions of parents put their children under the
- 12:39Speaker 1: care of public school teachers, administrators, and support staff. Their trust, however,
- 12:44Speaker 1: is frequently broken by predators in authority in what appears
- 12:47Speaker 1: to be the largest ongoing sexual abuse scandal in our
- 12:50Speaker 1: nation's history. Given the roughly fifty million students in US
- 12:55Speaker 1: k through twelve schools each year. The number of students
- 12:58Speaker 1: who have been victims of sex from misconduct by school
- 13:01Speaker 1: employees is probably in the millions each decade, according to
- 13:06Speaker 1: multiple studies. Such numbers would far exceed the high profile
- 13:11Speaker 1: abuse scandals that rock the Roman Catholic Church and the
- 13:14Speaker 1: Boy Scouts of America for what.
- 13:18Speaker 2: You don't want to say something about that? No, just oh okay,
- 13:22Speaker 2: just listening, all right, It's all good.
- 13:26Speaker 1: For a variety of reasons, ranging from embarrassment to eagerness
- 13:29Speaker 1: to avoid liability. Elected or appointed officials, along with unions
- 13:34Speaker 1: or lobbying groups, so like schools, school teachers' unions, and
- 13:38Speaker 1: stuff representing school employees, have fought to keep the truth
- 13:42Speaker 1: hidden from the public.
- 13:46Speaker 2: In any given year, this is a quote.
- 13:48Speaker 1: In any given year, they have failed to report thousands
- 13:51Speaker 1: of these situations, and instead they've prepared them or I'm sorry,
- 13:55Speaker 1: they've papered them over and acted like it's not an issue.
- 13:59Speaker 1: Former Educationation Secretary Betsy DeVos told Real Clear investigations stunned
- 14:05Speaker 1: by a twenty eighteen Chicago Tribune investigation that found five
- 14:09Speaker 1: hundred and twenty three incident reports of sexual misconduct by
- 14:12Speaker 1: employees of the city schools.
- 14:14Speaker 2: During the past decade.
- 14:15Speaker 1: Devas during the Trump administration, launched the process of including
- 14:19Speaker 1: specific questions about such cases in the Department's Civil Rights
- 14:23Speaker 1: data collection, a process that undertakes every two years. Previously,
- 14:28Speaker 1: the Office of Civil Rights asked only general questions about
- 14:31Speaker 1: sexual misconduct incidents without a breakdown of alleged perpetrators.
- 14:36Speaker 3: Oh oh, so we see. This isn't about This isn't
- 14:43Speaker 3: about students raping students. This is maybe more about Hugo Schweitzer.
- 14:51Speaker 2: Hugo Schweitzer.
- 14:53Speaker 3: You don't remember Hugo Schweitzer.
- 14:55Speaker 2: They I know the name, I can't remember specifically.
- 14:58Speaker 3: Yeah, no, he was. He was the he was, oh,
- 15:02Speaker 3: I forget what university and it was a college in California.
- 15:05Speaker 3: He was a women's studies professor at and he didn't
- 15:10Speaker 3: have any credentials to teach women's studies. And he had
- 15:13Speaker 3: a habit of sleeping with his female students. And you
- 15:19Speaker 3: remember he wrote an article like a huge outpouring of
- 15:25Speaker 3: like his baggage, right just airing his dirty laundry. He
- 15:29Speaker 3: wrote an article about how he'd like tried to commit
- 15:33Speaker 3: murder suicide. You know, like because he and his ex
- 15:36Speaker 3: girlfriend were addicted to drugs and she came over one
- 15:40Speaker 3: day and they did a bunch of drugs and she
- 15:42Speaker 3: passed out, and then he like turned on the freaking
- 15:45Speaker 3: gas stove and tried to kill them both, and the
- 15:50Speaker 3: neighbors smelled the gas and came and kept it from happening.
- 15:56Speaker 3: And like, he just is massive confessional, and I mean
- 16:01Speaker 3: even feminists had to disown him, you know, like they
- 16:07Speaker 3: and then he ended up having like some kind of
- 16:11Speaker 3: horrific breakdown meant psychotic breakdown and ended up in a
- 16:19Speaker 3: mental institution where they happened to give him his phone,
- 16:24Speaker 3: his cell phone, and then he went on Twitter and
- 16:29Speaker 3: confessed to everything that he was like a fraud and
- 16:34Speaker 3: he didn't even really care about women and he doesn't
- 16:36Speaker 3: care about feminism, and he basically it was a good
- 16:41Speaker 3: job and he could, like he could pretend to care
- 16:45Speaker 3: about women while banging co eds and you know and
- 16:49Speaker 3: all of this other stuff, right, and he just like
- 16:51Speaker 3: I guess he was, like they gave him some benzo
- 16:57Speaker 3: diazepam or something to take the edge off is withdrawal
- 17:01Speaker 3: symptoms from the freaking heroin or coke or whatever it was.
- 17:06Speaker 3: And he just went on this big freaking Twitter thread
- 17:09Speaker 3: and just unloaded a whole bunch of you know, it
- 17:12Speaker 3: was like it was kind of like a a Charles Climber.
- 17:18Speaker 3: You remember Charles Climber.
- 17:20Speaker 1: Uh yeah, I remember that name too, but I can't
- 17:22Speaker 1: remember the specifics of Charlotte.
- 17:27Speaker 2: Yes, right, we talked about that not that long ago.
- 17:30Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, you know what for the audience,
- 17:33Speaker 2: give him a little refresher.
- 17:34Speaker 3: Well, Charles Climber was the guy who basically he wrote
- 17:37Speaker 3: a whole statistically valid article. It was a statistical analysis
- 17:42Speaker 3: of various likelihoods of events happening to you, and he
- 17:48Speaker 3: determined that you're, as a man, you're more likely to
- 17:52Speaker 3: be killed by an asteroid than to be falsely accused
- 17:55Speaker 3: of rape. And his math feminist math. That's that's the
- 18:01Speaker 3: only way I can describe it. And yeah, no. He
- 18:06Speaker 3: described that he compared the based on one hundred sexual
- 18:11Speaker 3: encounters a year on average over the course of fifty years. Right,
- 18:17Speaker 3: the per sexual encounter incidents, taking only the two percent
- 18:23Speaker 3: false rape claim as the only figure. There's a per
- 18:28Speaker 3: sexual encounter incident that's the equivalent of being killed by
- 18:35Speaker 3: an asteroid and it's like your lifetime risk of being
- 18:39Speaker 3: killed by an asteroid. And I'm like, okay, you do
- 18:42Speaker 3: realize virgins get falsely accused of sexual assault and rape, right,
- 18:49Speaker 3: Like they've never had a sexual encounter. M Like, and
- 18:56Speaker 3: then you're gonna assume one hundred sexual encounters per year
- 19:00Speaker 3: for fifty straight years, right, And then you're going to
- 19:03Speaker 3: compare the per incident instance incidents, right, per sexual encounter
- 19:09Speaker 3: incidents against the lifetime risk of being killed by an asteroid.
- 19:14Speaker 3: Then say, see, man, you don't have nothing to worry about.
- 19:17Speaker 3: And anyway, he got booted out because he started crossing
- 19:24Speaker 3: all kinds of boundaries too. I mean, it's like it's
- 19:27Speaker 3: really it's kind of like Alison and I have discussed
- 19:31Speaker 3: this before, right, you know, like, well, if you were
- 19:36Speaker 3: a rape guy, right, and you wanted to sexually assault
- 19:41Speaker 3: and sexually harass women, right, and you got off on that,
- 19:47Speaker 3: wouldn't you want to surround yourself with a bunch of
- 19:52Speaker 3: women who talk about sexual harassment and sexual assault all
- 19:57Speaker 3: the time so you can like.
- 20:00Speaker 1: To that.
- 20:01Speaker 3: And then and then on top of that, they don't
- 20:03Speaker 3: just talk about that, they talk about how difficult it
- 20:06Speaker 3: is to report it, you know, ninety nine percent of
- 20:10Speaker 3: sexual assaults don't even get reported. Oh well, let's see
- 20:14Speaker 3: whether you're one of that ninety nine.
- 20:20Speaker 2: That's a yeah, that's a good point. And then he
- 20:25Speaker 2: realized that he was born in the wrong body.
- 20:28Speaker 3: Yes, then he realized that he was really a woman
- 20:31Speaker 3: and he was actually on a.
- 20:37Speaker 1: Was he being persecuted like legally before he had this revelation,
- 20:43Speaker 1: I don't.
- 20:43Speaker 3: Well, no, he was canceled by the feminist movement, I see.
- 20:48Speaker 2: And then he became stunning and.
- 20:51Speaker 3: Brave, became stunning and brave, and then he was on
- 20:55Speaker 3: the women for Kamalah.
- 20:59Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I remember.
- 21:00Speaker 1: That's when we tell you yes, right, see, that's that's
- 21:03Speaker 1: how easy it is, guys. If you really want to
- 21:07Speaker 1: use patriarch to your advantage, become.
- 21:10Speaker 3: A woman woman, all right.
- 21:17Speaker 2: So I just want I wanted.
- 21:19Speaker 1: To look at they they have a link in the
- 21:23Speaker 1: article that takes you to a report that I'm going
- 21:27Speaker 1: to I want to look at. So I'm going to
- 21:28Speaker 1: share this here. And this is a Channel five Chicago,
- 21:33Speaker 1: so my hometown. Hundreds of Chicago public school students were
- 21:37Speaker 1: sexually abused in the last decade, report finds. So let's
- 21:44Speaker 1: see the Tribune analyzed five hundred and twenty three Chicago
- 21:50Speaker 1: police reports from two thousand and eight through twenty seventeen
- 21:55Speaker 1: of children being sexually assaulted or abused inside public schools
- 21:59Speaker 1: across the city, and reviewed several other elements, including criminal
- 22:02Speaker 1: charges and prosecutions, lawsuits filed by victims, CPS, investigative reports,
- 22:07Speaker 1: and more. In all, the publication found seventy two school employees.
- 22:14Speaker 2: So this is like faculty and teachers and staff and
- 22:18Speaker 2: stitors and ed janitors.
- 22:21Speaker 1: And coaches right alleged to have violated students, including teachers, counselors, coaches,
- 22:29Speaker 1: security guards, and more. The assaults and abuse took place
- 22:32Speaker 1: at schools across the entire city, with a searchable database
- 22:35Speaker 1: to find incidents reported at specific schools.
- 22:40Speaker 2: So let me just let me see here.
- 22:43Speaker 1: I just want to see I there's anything else of
- 22:44Speaker 1: intra a cpsct of CPS is Chicago Public School. It's
- 22:48Speaker 1: a publicly funded organization. CEO weird, they have a CEO.
- 22:55Speaker 1: Janis Jackson said in a statement that the district has
- 22:57Speaker 1: a plan of action to improve protections for students, saying, quote,
- 23:01Speaker 1: I will not be satisfied until I am confident that
- 23:04Speaker 1: the district is doing everything possible to ensure that our
- 23:07Speaker 1: hiring practices, background checks, training and handling of sexual assault
- 23:11Speaker 1: and misconduct allegations are the best policies and practices to
- 23:14Speaker 1: protect our students, period. Jackson said the district plan to
- 23:19Speaker 1: bring an independent evaluator to conduct a.
- 23:21Speaker 2: Top to bottom review of policies.
- 23:23Speaker 1: The Shift Hardened law firm and former Illinois Executive Inspector
- 23:27Speaker 1: General Maggie Hickey were tapped to conduct the review, according
- 23:30Speaker 1: to the Tribune, which reported the district had approved a
- 23:34Speaker 1: five hundred thousand dollars contract and that the findings of
- 23:37Speaker 1: that review will be made public. Jackson told the paper
- 23:40Speaker 1: nothing is more important to Chicago schools than students' safety,
- 23:43Speaker 1: particularly with the adults who are supposed to serve them.
- 23:46Speaker 1: And we are taking significant actions to ensure our students
- 23:49Speaker 1: have the safest possible learning environments.
- 23:52Speaker 2: And this was we'll see how oldest.
- 23:54Speaker 1: Is twenty eighteen, so we haven't really heard anything yet.
- 23:58Speaker 1: And it seems to me that this so you said,
- 24:02Speaker 1: let me just switch this back. You said that this
- 24:06Speaker 1: guy who became a professor had no credentials. How did
- 24:10Speaker 1: he get the job? Was it because he knew people.
- 24:13Speaker 1: I mean, I don't maybe you don't know, but yeah,
- 24:15Speaker 1: I mean much of this, Yeah, how much of this
- 24:18Speaker 1: is If you know the right people, they can just
- 24:20Speaker 1: get you the job. Like I want to teach gender studies. Okay,
- 24:22Speaker 1: you're hired because we have money.
- 24:24Speaker 3: Yeah he had he had like I mean, I'm sure
- 24:26Speaker 3: he had like a university degree, but he didn't have
- 24:28Speaker 3: a PhD in like gender studies or anything like that,
- 24:33Speaker 3: or even I don't even think he had one in
- 24:35Speaker 3: history or anything. Right, he was he was just some
- 24:38Speaker 3: mirando who.
- 24:41Speaker 2: I don't think. I don't think it's hard to fake it.
- 24:44Speaker 1: I think I could get a doctorate in gender studies
- 24:47Speaker 1: because just for doing this show.
- 24:49Speaker 3: Well honestly, like you know, like my husband was trying
- 24:53Speaker 3: to convince me to go and apply to somebody like
- 24:58Speaker 3: maybe Robert King or you know, at the University of
- 25:03Speaker 3: Cork in Ireland or you know, someone like that, and
- 25:07Speaker 3: just apply to see if I could get into a
- 25:10Speaker 3: PhD program for this kind of stuff. And it's easy,
- 25:14Speaker 3: Like you could do it, like you could absolutely do it,
- 25:16Speaker 3: but I'm I'm just like not not interested in in
- 25:21Speaker 3: that kind of thing. I'd rather just get out there
- 25:24Speaker 3: and talk so.
- 25:25Speaker 1: Yeah, fair enough, and do you know anything about I
- 25:29Speaker 1: don't know if you've looked into it. But like, according
- 25:31Speaker 1: to this report from The Federalist's article.
- 25:35Speaker 2: Betsy de Vos, who was the Education.
- 25:38Speaker 1: Secretary during the twenty sixteen period, the trumble president yet yeah,
- 25:44Speaker 1: during the Trump years, said that she was launching a
- 25:49Speaker 1: process of including specific.
- 25:51Speaker 2: Questions about cases in school.
- 25:54Speaker 1: So she wanted to, like what make the investigation a
- 25:58Speaker 1: little bit more robust.
- 26:03Speaker 3: This isn't about this isn't about the investigations. This is
- 26:05Speaker 3: about reporting, right, reporting to the federal government. Right, so
- 26:11Speaker 3: when you when okay, Kevin, shut up, when you when
- 26:18Speaker 3: a law enforcement agency reports to the FBI's Uniform Crime
- 26:22Speaker 3: Reporting Service, right a system, they they include a bunch
- 26:29Speaker 3: of things, you know, like what was the actual nature
- 26:32Speaker 3: of the sexual assault?
- 26:34Speaker 2: Right?
- 26:35Speaker 3: Was it digital penetration? Was it penal penetration? Was it
- 26:40Speaker 3: you know, oral penetration? Was it? You know, like what
- 26:44Speaker 3: what actually happened? Right? And then uh? And then you know,
- 26:48Speaker 3: what were the surrounding circumstances? Was it forcible?
- 26:52Speaker 1: Was it?
- 26:52Speaker 3: Uh? You know, verbal coercion? Was it incapacitation through intoxication? Like?
- 26:59Speaker 3: How how did that happen. And and then they also
- 27:04Speaker 3: look at what's the what's the sex of the perpetrator,
- 27:10Speaker 3: you know, the perpetrator characteristics, right, Okay, and that's that's
- 27:16Speaker 3: what you have being reported to the FBI, including sex, age, race,
- 27:22Speaker 3: you know, anything that you know about the perpetrator. They
- 27:25Speaker 3: will report that to the uniform crime reporting system. Right,
- 27:30Speaker 3: Whereas before Betsy de Vos came in, it was just
- 27:36Speaker 3: basically you had to report that there was a sexual assault,
- 27:42Speaker 3: not just K to twelve, but K to all the
- 27:44Speaker 3: way through university. Yeah, you had to report if there
- 27:49Speaker 3: was a sexual assault reported to the school, right, but
- 27:54Speaker 3: you didn't have to really feel any of those details
- 27:58Speaker 3: in including what whether it was a teacher or a
- 28:01Speaker 3: janitor or a custodian or a counselor or another student
- 28:05Speaker 3: or whatever. You didn't have to fill in any of
- 28:08Speaker 3: the perpetrator details. And Betsy Devas, I mean she basically
- 28:13Speaker 3: she was brought on to like completely revamp the entire
- 28:18Speaker 3: sexual assault system in the Department of Education because of
- 28:27Speaker 3: the lack of due process for male students accused of
- 28:31Speaker 3: sexual assault, right, And she actually changed the rules back
- 28:36Speaker 3: to something somewhat same while still respecting the experiences of victims.
- 28:46Speaker 3: But she re established due process and on college campuses
- 28:51Speaker 3: and stuff, and she put in place this more detailed
- 28:56Speaker 3: reporting system because you basically, after get a law that's
- 29:02Speaker 3: named after someone, but it's it's basically by law they
- 29:08Speaker 3: if there's a sexual assault, that complaint that's made to
- 29:11Speaker 3: any school in the United States, they have to report
- 29:14Speaker 3: it to the Department of Education, right, And she's just
- 29:18Speaker 3: basically said, well, you know, you can't just get away
- 29:22Speaker 3: with saying, yeah, we had a complaint. You have to
- 29:25Speaker 3: actually you know, fill in some of the details.
- 29:30Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah.
- 29:31Speaker 1: And so would you say that during the Trump year
- 29:35Speaker 1: is what Betsy Devas's function was supposed to be. Would
- 29:38Speaker 1: you say that that was on the right track, even
- 29:42Speaker 1: though I once Fighten took office, they reversed everything, they
- 29:45Speaker 1: reversed everything.
- 29:47Speaker 3: Yeah, No, I think Betsy Devas she was actually she
- 29:50Speaker 3: was actually really balanced. You know, everything that I saw
- 29:54Speaker 3: her do was like designed to improve tracking of incidents, right,
- 30:01Speaker 3: sort of improve the tracking system of what's going on
- 30:04Speaker 3: where and how often, right while affording due process rights
- 30:11Speaker 3: and you know, sort of adversarial process rights to both
- 30:19Speaker 3: be accused and the accusers. So, I mean she really
- 30:24Speaker 3: did strike a fine balance between you know, like no
- 30:28Speaker 3: one who's accusing someone of something that you know is
- 30:34Speaker 3: kind of makes you feel ashamed or embarrassed or whatever
- 30:37Speaker 3: wants to sit there and face them and be questioned
- 30:41Speaker 3: by them and you know, like in front of everybody
- 30:44Speaker 3: and all of that stuff. Right, I mean, it's a
- 30:46Speaker 3: very difficult thing, and it's necessary, but it's it's extremely
- 30:50Speaker 3: difficult if you've actually been through that. And if you
- 30:55Speaker 3: have it, it's super easy, right, if you just do it.
- 30:58Speaker 3: It's to stick it to some guy, Right, it's super
- 31:01Speaker 3: easy to get on the stand and like you know,
- 31:04Speaker 3: and and spill your guts, spill whatever fake you know,
- 31:11Speaker 3: bile you have. But but if you've actually been through
- 31:14Speaker 3: something like that, it's a little bit more difficult to
- 31:19Speaker 3: do it right to their face. And so I mean,
- 31:21Speaker 3: like she she really did kind of strike a balance
- 31:24Speaker 3: between the rights of the accuser and the rights of
- 31:27Speaker 3: the accused. And uh, and she she and you got
- 31:32Speaker 3: to know that she made some progress because that moment
- 31:36Speaker 3: Biden Harris got in, right, they rolled all of it back, right,
- 31:42Speaker 3: They just deleted like deleted everything.
- 31:46Speaker 1: Yeah, it was like she didn't do anything. They just
- 31:48Speaker 1: set it back to square one?
- 31:50Speaker 2: Do you did?
- 31:51Speaker 1: Do you think that then, because what I'm wondering is
- 31:54Speaker 1: is why would they do that. It would seem to
- 31:57Speaker 1: be a fair thing to leave in place? And I
- 32:00Speaker 1: don't think that it makes sense that it's simply because.
- 32:04Speaker 2: The Orange man hired her. I think it's I think
- 32:07Speaker 2: that that.
- 32:07Speaker 1: Maybe could it be I don't know teachers' unions that
- 32:11Speaker 1: are concerned, Could it be something else?
- 32:15Speaker 3: No? No, I actually do think that it was a
- 32:18Speaker 3: knee jerk Orange man bad do the opposite, right, do
- 32:23Speaker 3: the opposite of the Orangeman. They did that with so
- 32:25Speaker 3: many of his policies, including very sensible ones, right, that
- 32:30Speaker 3: that just as a knee jerk response, well this has
- 32:35Speaker 3: Trump's name on it, get rid of it, right, And
- 32:39Speaker 3: you know, like I I don't think they even looked
- 32:42Speaker 3: at any of it. They were just like, put the
- 32:43Speaker 3: Obama thing back in place, right, And.
- 32:47Speaker 1: Yeah, well yeah, it was probably Obama that told them
- 32:49Speaker 1: to do it, to be honest, Actually, well it was Obama.
- 32:55Speaker 3: It was under Obama that that dear colleague letter came
- 32:58Speaker 3: down right yeah where yeah, where it was like, yeah, no,
- 33:02Speaker 3: you have to if you if you don't want to
- 33:03Speaker 3: lose your federal funding. You're going to have to adjudicate
- 33:07Speaker 3: sexual assaults on a fifty point zero one balance of probabilities,
- 33:11Speaker 3: right and instead of a instead of an eighty percent
- 33:15Speaker 3: clear and convincing burden of proof. Right. And and you know,
- 33:22Speaker 3: like in he's not allowed to have a lawyer, and
- 33:25Speaker 3: he's not allowed to have like an advocate, and he
- 33:29Speaker 3: anything but but yet anything that he says in the
- 33:32Speaker 3: tribunal hearing at the university can and will be used
- 33:35Speaker 3: against him in a freaking criminal court. Like what the
- 33:38Speaker 3: fuck is that? Right? So, yeah, no, it was. It
- 33:44Speaker 3: was insane what Obama pushed through with the help of
- 33:49Speaker 3: Russell and Ali his the I think she was the
- 33:56Speaker 3: assistant director of the Department of Education Office of Civil
- 34:01Speaker 3: Rights under Obama.
- 34:02Speaker 5: So yeah, all right, Well, just trying to get like
- 34:06Speaker 5: a feel for like the timeline, the landscape, and what's changed,
- 34:10Speaker 5: because apparently these extra you know, like I guess this
- 34:13Speaker 5: extra layer of questioning or detail that Devas was asking
- 34:18Speaker 5: for was initially the Biden administration when they came in
- 34:23Speaker 5: a power sought to remove those questions, saying that it
- 34:26Speaker 5: wanted to avoid data duplication.
- 34:29Speaker 3: Oh yeah, no, no, they wanted to avoid catching frickin'
- 34:34Speaker 3: Charles Climber in the girl's bathroom sexually assaulting her classmates.
- 34:41Speaker 3: I'm going to turn off my camera for a second,
- 34:43Speaker 3: give me a second, Okay.
- 34:44Speaker 1: No problem, and I would just keep reading in the meantime.
- 34:48Speaker 1: So so, the Biden administration initially sought to remove those questions,
- 34:53Speaker 1: saying it wanted to avoid data duplication, but it backtracked
- 34:57Speaker 1: after fierce criticism it was doing as a sop to
- 35:01Speaker 1: teachers unions.
- 35:03Speaker 2: Consequently, Oh, yeah, no.
- 35:05Speaker 3: That could be the case, too, right, But I do
- 35:09Speaker 3: actually think that it's not so much a matter of
- 35:12Speaker 3: teachers unions. I think it's probably a trans issue thing.
- 35:16Speaker 2: That's yeah, that's probably right too.
- 35:19Speaker 1: Consequently, the question will be included on future questionnaires. But
- 35:24Speaker 1: as of today, the Department of Education has no data,
- 35:27Speaker 1: a spokesman told RCI so.
- 35:29Speaker 2: They have no data Department of Education.
- 35:32Speaker 1: These days, from Portland, Maine to Portland, Oregon, even a
- 35:35Speaker 1: cursory review of local news reporting brings disquieting revelations of
- 35:39Speaker 1: teachers accused of or arrested for alleged sexual relations with
- 35:44Speaker 1: a student. And you know, if you guys watch the
- 35:47Speaker 1: news show I've taken a break from reporting on those
- 35:50Speaker 1: because it's a little black pilling to oh, here's a
- 35:53Speaker 1: teacher rape for student, a teacher rape for student, and
- 35:56Speaker 1: they don't yeah, and they don't real time, or they
- 36:01Speaker 1: or they just go do community service, or they pay
- 36:04Speaker 1: a fine, or they just relocate and then they start
- 36:06Speaker 1: teaching somethlace else. You know, like there's a lot of
- 36:09Speaker 1: this that happens and you just want to but if
- 36:11Speaker 1: you want to see watch the news show. I might
- 36:15Speaker 1: start looking for those cases again in light of this
- 36:18Speaker 1: new information, because like when this was going on in
- 36:22Speaker 1: the Catholic Church, it was a gigantic scandal.
- 36:24Speaker 2: Everyone knew about it because.
- 36:26Speaker 3: It was men doing it. Brian, Yes, men doing it.
- 36:32Speaker 5: Right.
- 36:32Speaker 1: It was super gay and the Boy Scouts too, And
- 36:36Speaker 1: I mean, like I and the scale, this scale of
- 36:40Speaker 1: what's happening here is way more than what happened to
- 36:43Speaker 1: the Catholic Church or the Boy Scouts. So why doesn't
- 36:45Speaker 1: it have the same stigma. Obviously it's because it's women
- 36:48Speaker 1: who are the offenders, and it's education. Like these people
- 36:53Speaker 1: are very protective of public education because it is their
- 36:56Speaker 1: tool of the indoctrination. And you know, the thing is too,
- 37:01Speaker 1: is that they're only talking about the sexual assaults that
- 37:05Speaker 1: happen in school, but it doesn't really include the grooming
- 37:10Speaker 1: and the queering and transing of children, you know, by
- 37:14Speaker 1: teaching them that like that's not included. So like it's
- 37:16Speaker 1: worse than that. I mean, it's and it's not just
- 37:20Speaker 1: public education. I know James Lindsay he did he did
- 37:24Speaker 1: a great video about how this ideology queer theory and
- 37:29Speaker 1: like what's the uh, I can't remember his name, Paolo Fieri,
- 37:33Speaker 1: you know that is just like a Marxist professor from
- 37:38Speaker 1: South America. He basically is the He's called like one
- 37:41Speaker 1: of the fathers of queer theory, you know, along with
- 37:44Speaker 1: Kinsey and John Money.
- 37:47Speaker 2: Anyway, he had this.
- 37:48Speaker 1: Whole thing that was like a new way of teaching
- 37:52Speaker 1: children that is about essentially, you know, trying to indoctrinate
- 37:57Speaker 1: them into queer studies. And when I say queer, and
- 38:02Speaker 1: I don't have to I should not have to say
- 38:03Speaker 1: this again, but some people think I mean gay. It
- 38:06Speaker 1: doesn't mean gay. Queer means and identity without an essence.
- 38:09Speaker 1: It is essentially going against anything that is considered the
- 38:14Speaker 1: norm or the hegemony, right, so.
- 38:17Speaker 3: They and gay is normal now, I'm sorry, but gay right,
- 38:23Speaker 3: So we're just going to have to keep pushing that
- 38:25Speaker 3: fucking envelope all the way off a cliff, right, if
- 38:28Speaker 3: we're going to keep finding queerness everywhere. Yeah, now, it's
- 38:31Speaker 3: like freaking girls who wear cat tails and cat ears
- 38:35Speaker 3: to school and only talking mews, right like, I'm sorry.
- 38:43Speaker 2: Oh no, we're not done yet. It's going to get weirder.
- 38:47Speaker 3: Oh god.
- 38:50Speaker 1: So anyway, Yeah, I just wanted up to make a
- 38:53Speaker 1: mention of that, that that this is only talking about
- 38:56Speaker 1: sexual assault.
- 38:56Speaker 2: I think schools, like.
- 38:58Speaker 1: If you guys have kids, and also private schools and
- 39:03Speaker 1: charter schools, they're not much better because it's not about
- 39:07Speaker 1: where the money comes from. It's about the ideas that
- 39:09Speaker 1: are spread. And we're talking about at least two generations
- 39:13Speaker 1: of teachers who have learned in this same system that
- 39:17Speaker 1: think it is in fact, the best way forward, and
- 39:20Speaker 1: so they just bring that into their own you know, curriculum,
- 39:24Speaker 1: and they teach those students, and some of those students
- 39:27Speaker 1: will become teachers and they will carry that forward. So yeah,
- 39:31Speaker 1: just homeschool your kids.
- 39:33Speaker 3: Yeah no, if my kids were little right now, I'd
- 39:35Speaker 3: homeschool them yeah, right, Like I wouldn't put them in
- 39:42Speaker 3: a private school.
- 39:44Speaker 2: No, no, I wouldn't do that. The one.
- 39:47Speaker 1: I guess there are people creating like online only university.
- 39:51Speaker 1: I know Jordan Peterson is working on one, but I
- 39:53Speaker 1: don't think he's the only one. I think a lot
- 39:54Speaker 1: of people are doing like online universities independent of school.
- 40:00Speaker 2: They may not be great in terms of socialization because
- 40:03Speaker 2: you're online.
- 40:04Speaker 1: But at least in terms of not getting your kid
- 40:07Speaker 1: turned into like a gay race communist, I think it's
- 40:09Speaker 1: pretty good.
- 40:11Speaker 3: Oh no, But even when I was a kid, there
- 40:13Speaker 3: was like correspondence school. Like I took Grade eleven Social Studies.
- 40:21Speaker 3: I repeated it by correspondence because my social studies teacher
- 40:29Speaker 3: was like a raging, freaking communist, and I kept on
- 40:34Speaker 3: pointing out the flaws in his reasoning in front of
- 40:38Speaker 3: the class, and so he, uh he docked me Marx
- 40:43Speaker 3: for attitude.
- 40:46Speaker 2: I couldn't imagine why.
- 40:48Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, So then I took it by correspondence and
- 40:52Speaker 3: I think I got like ninety eight percent in the
- 40:55Speaker 3: course overall, and showed it to my disciplinarian vice principal. God.
- 41:06Speaker 3: I forget what his name was, Spanky or something, but
- 41:12Speaker 3: I showed I showed my report my report card to him,
- 41:15Speaker 3: and and I was like, you know that that teacher,
- 41:20Speaker 3: you know he just had I told you, he just
- 41:22Speaker 3: had a thing against me. Sad way, mister sadoway, mister yeah,
- 41:32Speaker 3: I was always sad when he was away.
- 41:35Speaker 1: Not really, not really, Okay, Well, let's look at the
- 41:40Speaker 1: rest of this article. They name a few other examples,
- 41:43Speaker 1: but I just wanted to point out before I read
- 41:45Speaker 1: into them that we cover multiple cases of women. It's
- 41:49Speaker 1: mostly women, and we basically in every case that we've covered,
- 41:53Speaker 1: But because the majority of teachers are women, that's kind
- 41:56Speaker 1: of just how it's.
- 41:57Speaker 2: Going to shape shake out.
- 41:59Speaker 1: But in calif Fifornia, multiple students file a lawsuit against
- 42:02Speaker 1: a male music teacher who had taught at three different
- 42:04Speaker 1: schools in the San Jose area. The teacher is already
- 42:07Speaker 1: serving prison time for previous convictions in sexual misconduct cases
- 42:11Speaker 1: with students.
- 42:12Speaker 2: Why does he keep getting work?
- 42:13Speaker 1: In New Jersey, a female middle school teacher was arrested
- 42:16Speaker 1: for alleged ongoing sexual relationship with a student.
- 42:20Speaker 2: So I was a female teacher.
- 42:21Speaker 1: In Texas, a male teacher was arrested for allegedly having
- 42:24Speaker 1: a sexual affair with a twelve year old student. In Illinois,
- 42:28Speaker 1: a female substitute teacher faces charges of grooming and predatory
- 42:33Speaker 1: criminal sexual assault for an alleged relationship with a sixth grader.
- 42:37Speaker 1: In Washington, the arrest of a male high school teacher
- 42:40Speaker 1: on charges of sexual misconduct with a minor represented a
- 42:45Speaker 1: repeat nightmare for a school district that previously had a
- 42:49Speaker 1: psychologist convicted on.
- 42:50Speaker 2: The same charges.
- 42:52Speaker 1: And just that weekend, a thirty six year old New
- 42:54Speaker 1: Jersey teacher, a woman, was arrested on multiple assault charges
- 42:58Speaker 1: involving a sexual relationship with a teenage student. These stories
- 43:02Speaker 1: hold a lurid appeal to some Sensational accounts of seductions
- 43:06Speaker 1: of students by teachers, typically by high school female teachers,
- 43:10Speaker 1: are tabloid catnip.
- 43:11Speaker 2: This is true, and that's what it is.
- 43:14Speaker 1: Like, it's a lot of like younger they're either teachers
- 43:18Speaker 1: or they're like teachers' aides in high school.
- 43:20Speaker 3: They're not, they're they're not. They're not Randy Wine gardens.
- 43:24Speaker 2: No, nope, no they're not.
- 43:27Speaker 3: No, no, they're attractive young female teachers that male students
- 43:32Speaker 3: would have a crush on.
- 43:34Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, so yeah.
- 43:39Speaker 1: So anyway, the topic has provided material for stand up comics,
- 43:43Speaker 1: Hollywood writers, and pop tunes that didn't begin or end
- 43:46Speaker 1: with Van Halen's nineteen eighty four hit Hot for Teacher.
- 43:49Speaker 1: But experts who track the problem don't take the problem lightly.
- 43:53Speaker 1: Pointing to research from Hofstra University that found roughly one
- 43:58Speaker 1: in ten students in K through twelve schools have suffered
- 44:01Speaker 1: some form of sexual misconduct by an educator, Terry Miller,
- 44:05Speaker 1: head of the advocacy group SESAME, which stands for Stop
- 44:09Speaker 1: Educator Sexual Abuse, Misconduct and Exploitation, said the number of
- 44:13Speaker 1: victims is staggering. The rate of educator sexual misconduct is
- 44:17Speaker 1: ten times higher in one year's time than in five
- 44:20Speaker 1: decades of abuse by clergy.
- 44:22Speaker 2: Let me read that again.
- 44:24Speaker 1: The rate of educator sexual misconduct is ten times higher
- 44:29Speaker 1: in one year's time than in fifty years of abuse
- 44:34Speaker 1: by clergy. Ten times higher in one year.
- 44:39Speaker 3: Yeah, well it's is it is she talking about the
- 44:42Speaker 3: rate or the incidents.
- 44:43Speaker 2: Because the rate she says the rate.
- 44:45Speaker 3: Well, but people use that interchangeably a lot. I don't know,
- 44:50Speaker 3: you know, like you eat, okay, ten times higher in
- 44:53Speaker 3: one year? Well, how many more kids are in school
- 44:56Speaker 3: than are in the Catholic church and in a position
- 44:59Speaker 3: to be abused at Sunday School or you know, as
- 45:02Speaker 3: an altar boy. Right, so you know you're kind of
- 45:06Speaker 3: looking at you know this, this could just the rates
- 45:09Speaker 3: may be the same. But I mean, she she could
- 45:13Speaker 3: she could be using you know, there's a rate of
- 45:16Speaker 3: speed which is like one hundred kilometers an hour. There's
- 45:20Speaker 3: also a rate of acceleration, right, and then you compare
- 45:24Speaker 3: rates and you know, like it's it's a lot of
- 45:27Speaker 3: people don't really use the terminology correctly. So she could
- 45:31Speaker 3: be talking about just like raw numbers of incidents.
- 45:35Speaker 1: Yeah, that's what I am trying to be careful of.
- 45:38Speaker 1: I'm not going to make a case in defense of
- 45:40Speaker 1: the Catholic Church. But I don't even know if That's
- 45:44Speaker 1: why I said in the beginning of the outset, like
- 45:46Speaker 1: I don't know if I can trust these statistics, because
- 45:48Speaker 1: I don't trust statistics at all that much these days
- 45:52Speaker 1: because of how you know, they get used. But that
- 45:55Speaker 1: still sounds like a lot and I wonder if it
- 45:57Speaker 1: also I wonder if it includes Catholic school, like when
- 46:00Speaker 1: they talk about abused by clergy, because aren't Catholic.
- 46:03Speaker 2: I have never been to a Catholic school. But are
- 46:06Speaker 2: Catholic schools.
- 46:07Speaker 3: No teachers Teachers at Catholic schools don't They aren't clergy, right,
- 46:12Speaker 3: you know, Like I've been to my cousins went to
- 46:18Speaker 3: Catholic school. My husband went to a Catholic school for
- 46:22Speaker 3: a while, and uh, and yeah, no, the teachers are
- 46:26Speaker 3: just everyday teachers.
- 46:27Speaker 2: They're just teachers.
- 46:28Speaker 3: Don't even necessarily have to be Catholic, right, But you
- 46:32Speaker 3: do have a religion class, right that you know is
- 46:36Speaker 3: a you know, mandatory and that's generally taught by somebody
- 46:40Speaker 3: who's like Catholic clergy, right you know. But but yeah, no,
- 46:49Speaker 3: that the math teacher isn't necessarily a priest, right, Like,
- 46:53Speaker 3: it's not just taught by priests and nuns at least.
- 46:56Speaker 1: I just had this image Catholic schools being you know,
- 47:01Speaker 1: staffed by nuns with rulers you.
- 47:07Speaker 3: Know, maybe back in the day, but you know, like
- 47:10Speaker 3: it's those generally, you know the reason for Catholic schools,
- 47:14Speaker 3: the reason for religious schools was generally because public schools
- 47:20Speaker 3: were well, weren't available, right, like they Catholic school was
- 47:29Speaker 3: was public school, right, because all the other schools were
- 47:34Speaker 3: private because we didn't have a public school system was
- 47:38Speaker 3: paid for by the taxpayers. So you either sent your
- 47:40Speaker 3: kids to private school and paid yourself, or your kids
- 47:44Speaker 3: went to Catholic school, which was paid for by the
- 47:48Speaker 3: church and was primarily staffed by volunteers from the church. Right,
- 47:53Speaker 3: So like that's that was the origins of that, but
- 47:56Speaker 3: that's not what it is today.
- 47:59Speaker 1: Okay, all right, well yeah, so again the statistics sounds shocking,
- 48:05Speaker 1: but it might be a little bit, you know, it
- 48:09Speaker 1: might not be what it sounds like. So the rate
- 48:12Speaker 1: of I'll just read it one more time. The rate
- 48:13Speaker 1: of educator sexual misconduct is ten times higher in one
- 48:17Speaker 1: year's time than in five decades of abuse by clergy,
- 48:21Speaker 1: Miller said, noting that in twenty twenty one, the US
- 48:24Speaker 1: Conference of Catholic Bishops reported it had received nearly four
- 48:28Speaker 1: three hundred sexual abuse allegations. Another striking contrast is we
- 48:33Speaker 1: are not mandated to send our children to church.
- 48:36Speaker 2: We are mandated to send them to school. I mean,
- 48:40Speaker 2: that's true.
- 48:41Speaker 1: That's another reason why there's more kids in school too,
- 48:44Speaker 1: because they have to go. The extent of the problem
- 48:48Speaker 1: may shock many Americans. The topic has long been shrouded
- 48:51Speaker 1: by a curtain held by various actors in the drama.
- 48:55Speaker 1: Schools reluctant to go public with embarrassing and possibly criminal activity.
- 49:00Speaker 1: Unions fighting for members is privacy, So the unions are
- 49:04Speaker 1: protecting the accused, I can assume, and sometimes state laws
- 49:09Speaker 1: that protect it, and a government reluctant to ask hard
- 49:13Speaker 1: questions that would gather reliable data. So it's like a
- 49:17Speaker 1: combination of things. Right, So you got you know, the
- 49:21Speaker 1: schools don't want to talk about it because it's going
- 49:24Speaker 1: to ruin their name.
- 49:25Speaker 2: This is the issue at colleges.
- 49:27Speaker 1: This is why they do everything in these sort of
- 49:29Speaker 1: kangaroo courts, you know, when allegations come out on universities
- 49:33Speaker 1: because they don't want to give the university a bad name.
- 49:35Speaker 2: They're worried about, you.
- 49:37Speaker 1: Know, whether or not they're not going to get new
- 49:40Speaker 1: members or applicants. Schools reluctant to go public with them. Yeah,
- 49:45Speaker 1: like I read that unions fighting for members privacy. I
- 49:48Speaker 1: don't know, Like, I mean, I guess it makes sense
- 49:51Speaker 1: that you want to do that, but what is the union?
- 49:54Speaker 1: How do they benefit from that? Are they just saying, oh,
- 49:56Speaker 1: this is what we do or oh it's.
- 49:59Speaker 3: Okay, let me let me give you up. Okay, So
- 50:02Speaker 3: there was this woman in Nova, Scotia. She was a
- 50:09Speaker 3: a continuing care nurse, right, you know, like in a
- 50:14Speaker 3: nursing home. Right. I forget what her waggart or something
- 50:22Speaker 3: like that, but I forget, I forget what her name is. Honestly,
- 50:27Speaker 3: there's just so many fucking names in my brain right now.
- 50:31Speaker 3: But anyway, she she killed. She killed a bunch of
- 50:37Speaker 3: patients who was addicted to opioids, right, which she was
- 50:40Speaker 3: stealing from the medicine cabinet, and several patients died on
- 50:45Speaker 3: her watch. She was a night nurse, and several patients
- 50:49Speaker 3: died on her watch because she either didn't give them
- 50:52Speaker 3: medication or didn't wasn't she was too stone to react
- 50:57Speaker 3: to an alarm, or or she overdosed them, right, And
- 51:04Speaker 3: they figured out it was an accidental overdose because she
- 51:07Speaker 3: was addicted. And so her she was fired and then
- 51:15Speaker 3: her union came to her defense. Right, you can't leave
- 51:20Speaker 3: this woman. You know she's going to be destitute, right
- 51:23Speaker 3: because it says on her employment record that she was fired. Right,
- 51:28Speaker 3: And so you know, we're willing to negotiate, and we're
- 51:33Speaker 3: willing to not sue you. Okay, if you just put
- 51:38Speaker 3: that she was that she left of her own volition
- 51:42Speaker 3: because she was pursuing new career opportunities on her on
- 51:49Speaker 3: her termination slip, And so they did. And then she
- 51:54Speaker 3: went on and killed like six more people and attempted
- 51:57Speaker 3: to kill eight others. You know, these are her patients,
- 52:03Speaker 3: the most vulnerable people. And it's like, it's what the
- 52:10Speaker 3: union does, right, Like they protect their members no matter
- 52:15Speaker 3: what right they try and get. They're like lawyers. They're
- 52:18Speaker 3: like lawyers, and you know, like, okay, you might know
- 52:21Speaker 3: that you know your client as a lawyer, your client
- 52:25Speaker 3: killed six people in cold blood, and your job is
- 52:30Speaker 3: to without lying right and without suborning perjury, okay, because
- 52:37Speaker 3: those are the two things that you're not allowed to
- 52:39Speaker 3: do right to get him the best deal possible might
- 52:47Speaker 3: because everybody deserves a defense, right, and unions take that
- 52:53Speaker 3: to a whole other level. And so yeah, no, the
- 52:58Speaker 3: union threatened to sue the nursing home basically changed her
- 53:05Speaker 3: employment termination record, and she got another job at another
- 53:11Speaker 3: nursing home and killed more people.
- 53:16Speaker 1: Of course, the union covered for her, and so and
- 53:20Speaker 1: what does the union get out of that?
- 53:21Speaker 2: How do they benefit?
- 53:23Speaker 3: Well, they benefit with union dues, and if they didn't
- 53:26Speaker 3: protect their members as vigorously as possible, then you know,
- 53:30Speaker 3: what's the point of having a union.
- 53:32Speaker 1: Right, So they're doing it to maintain their own relevancy
- 53:36Speaker 1: and yewer justify themselves and also, yeah, continue to have
- 53:43Speaker 1: to stay as powerful as.
- 53:45Speaker 3: They are well and as with full pockets, right I mean,
- 53:52Speaker 3: and like everything, it can go overboard, in which case
- 53:56Speaker 3: the company will do restructuring and the union will go
- 53:58Speaker 3: by by and everybody will suffer, right, All of the
- 54:03Speaker 3: good employees will suffer along with the shitty ones that
- 54:07Speaker 3: were protected unjustifiably by the union. But you know, it's
- 54:14Speaker 3: just one of those weird things about unions. I mean,
- 54:16Speaker 3: my husband's in a union right now, and and he
- 54:22Speaker 3: describes it as very weird, you know, like, yeah, they
- 54:27Speaker 3: protect people who do like they preserve the employment of
- 54:30Speaker 3: people who do nothing, and not only just people who
- 54:33Speaker 3: do nothing, but people who are counter productive, who actually
- 54:37Speaker 3: put obstacles in the way of other people actually getting
- 54:41Speaker 3: anything done, right, And they put up with that. They
- 54:45Speaker 3: tolerate that because you try to fire anyone, just try,
- 54:52Speaker 3: you know, like you can say, go sitting in the
- 54:55Speaker 3: corner and play Bomberman. All day and stay out of
- 54:58Speaker 3: everybody's way and will keep paying you. Right, But people
- 55:03Speaker 3: don't take kindly to that, and they'll make a complaint
- 55:05Speaker 3: even if you tell them that, just sit on your asshole, Dan,
- 55:09Speaker 3: do nothing, and we'll pay you for the next twelve
- 55:12Speaker 3: years until retirement. And they won't tolerate that because then
- 55:16Speaker 3: it's like, you know, wow, are you saying that I'm useless? Well,
- 55:19Speaker 3: yeah you are. You're worse than useless, right.
- 55:24Speaker 1: Yeah, you're making everybody's life harder in the year.
- 55:27Speaker 3: You're worse than a plodded plant. Yeah, you're a poisonous plant.
- 55:32Speaker 2: You're like poison oak.
- 55:34Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, so so yeah, the unions are covering again,
- 55:41Speaker 1: probably for the reasons you described, but they're claiming it's
- 55:45Speaker 1: for members privacy and sometimes state laws are protected and
- 55:50Speaker 1: a government is reluctant to ask hard questions that would
- 55:53Speaker 1: gather reliable data because Orange man bad. But the cases
- 55:58Speaker 1: the tactics often used to cover them up had become
- 56:00Speaker 1: common enough to earn an ugly nickname called passing The trash.
- 56:06Speaker 1: Department of Education does not, and never has, track sexual
- 56:10Speaker 1: misconduct committed by adults against students, says Billie Joe Grant,
- 56:13Speaker 1: a professor at California's poly State University, was one of
- 56:17Speaker 1: the nation's top researchers on the topic. So the Department
- 56:20Speaker 1: of Education doesn't track sexual misconduct committed by adults against.
- 56:25Speaker 3: Students, well committed by staff, right.
- 56:29Speaker 2: Yeah, well that's what they mean.
- 56:31Speaker 1: I guess it was random, random homeless guy in the
- 56:33Speaker 1: back of the school, they probably like just you know,
- 56:37Speaker 1: there'd be a file.
- 56:38Speaker 3: But well, no, if it was random homeless guy in
- 56:41Speaker 3: back of the school, you wouldn't expect them to track that, right, right.
- 56:45Speaker 3: But if it's you know, like so there, the DOE
- 56:49Speaker 3: is is tracking student on student sexual assault, that's it, right.
- 56:56Speaker 1: And even then it's probably just when it's a male
- 57:01Speaker 1: and a female victim.
- 57:03Speaker 3: Well, because male male victims don't tend to report. So
- 57:09Speaker 3: I'm pretty sure they do track male victims and female offenders,
- 57:14Speaker 3: but in most cases, male victims don't tend to report that.
- 57:19Speaker 3: Like I I just remember this one case where there
- 57:23Speaker 3: was like two students had drunk sex and both were
- 57:29Speaker 3: pretty sure the other would regret it. And the guy
- 57:33Speaker 3: got to the dean's office faster in the morning than
- 57:39Speaker 3: the girl did, and he reported it. Yeah, and then
- 57:44Speaker 3: then she was, she was the defendant and she was
- 57:47Speaker 3: on the wrong side of the accusation, and uh and
- 57:51Speaker 3: she was, and they wrote a big article. It was
- 57:53Speaker 3: like such a sob story about you know, how how
- 57:56Speaker 3: dare this happen to her? I swear to go if
- 58:00Speaker 3: you pee on that wall. I washed a wall today,
- 58:08Speaker 3: And he's like, this is mine Virgin territory. I need
- 58:14Speaker 3: to mark this.
- 58:18Speaker 2: All right. Yeah, So.
- 58:22Speaker 1: Doe has never aggressively worked to stop teachers, unions, and
- 58:26Speaker 1: administrators from passing the trash, which is what we just
- 58:30Speaker 1: called the nickname for what that is.
- 58:32Speaker 2: Where no one wants to confront this, She told r C.
- 58:36Speaker 1: I Doe does not hold accountable the many enablers who
- 58:40Speaker 1: have created a pool of mobile molesters in our school's nationwide.
- 58:45Speaker 2: Your question should include why why? Why? Oh I have
- 58:49Speaker 2: a sound for that? Why? Why? Why you know that
- 58:53Speaker 2: you know that the preacher? Wait? Where is it?
- 58:58Speaker 1: I do have it, but I don't know where it is.
- 59:01Speaker 1: Maybe it's under rage. I think it's in my rage folder.
- 59:04Speaker 1: I have a rage folder for when we get upset.
- 59:07Speaker 2: Yeah, right, what what? Why?
- 59:19Speaker 1: Grant and Miller attended a Department of Education conference on
- 59:22Speaker 1: the topic in DC and October tweent nineteen and it
- 59:25Speaker 1: was out of that meeting that its Office for Civil
- 59:27Speaker 1: Rights decided to ask more specific question in its civil
- 59:31Speaker 1: rights data collections. According to Miller, and while the government
- 59:34Speaker 1: may be groping toward more clarity, as a DOE official
- 59:38Speaker 1: acknowledged having no data the department would make public, he
- 59:42Speaker 1: insisted the matter is viewed with concerns.
- 59:45Speaker 2: So even though this DOE.
- 59:47Speaker 1: Official said, you know, we don't have any data, but
- 59:51Speaker 1: we're told no, no, no, no, no, he insisted, the matter.
- 59:54Speaker 3: Is acknowledged acknowledged having no data. Quote, yeah, the department
- 1:00:00Speaker 3: make public.
- 1:00:01Speaker 2: Yeah, the Department would make public, right, important detail.
- 1:00:05Speaker 3: We have the data, They're just not going to disclose it, right, So.
- 1:00:13Speaker 2: Let me let's keep going. But this is it's getting
- 1:00:16Speaker 2: a little bit darker as I go along.
- 1:00:18Speaker 1: So in two thousand and four, then Hopstra Professor Carroll
- 1:00:23Speaker 1: shake Shaft.
- 1:00:29Speaker 3: Why didn't she just change your name to dick slapper,
- 1:00:33Speaker 3: dick swinger? Uh no, shafted Shaft.
- 1:00:42Speaker 1: Shake Shaft, that's her name, okay. In two thousand and
- 1:00:48Speaker 1: in regards to this story.
- 1:00:50Speaker 2: It's I don't know, okay. God has a sense of humor,
- 1:00:54Speaker 2: God has said, and.
- 1:00:56Speaker 3: All we need is a is a coburn, which is
- 1:00:59Speaker 3: still awkburn, all right.
- 1:01:04Speaker 1: In two thousand and four, then Hofstra professor Carrol Shakeshaft
- 1:01:08Speaker 1: did a report for the DOE that assessed the data
- 1:01:10Speaker 1: available on the topic from a handful of regional studies
- 1:01:14Speaker 1: and media reports. Shake Shafts report found some broad parameters
- 1:01:18Speaker 1: of the problem. For example, while stories involving female teachers
- 1:01:23Speaker 1: may be more titillating and gain more media attention, about
- 1:01:28Speaker 1: two thirds of the predators in school are male. While
- 1:01:33Speaker 1: no region seems to be immune from the problem, about
- 1:01:37Speaker 1: half of the reported incidents occurred in Southern states.
- 1:01:40Speaker 2: Shake shifts.
- 1:01:41Speaker 1: Shake Shafts report found most of the victims are female
- 1:01:44Speaker 1: fifty six percent, and the majority of incidents involve high
- 1:01:48Speaker 1: school's sixty two percent.
- 1:01:50Speaker 3: Oh well, that's a relief.
- 1:01:53Speaker 2: So about two thirds of the predators are male.
- 1:01:56Speaker 3: Yes, so at least we're talking kids fifteen and older, right,
- 1:02:02Speaker 3: I mean it's still not great, but.
- 1:02:04Speaker 1: Well, only sixty two percent, so there's actually a significant
- 1:02:09Speaker 1: that are not in high school.
- 1:02:11Speaker 3: Like right, yeah, no, thirty eight.
- 1:02:16Speaker 2: Yeah, thirty eight.
- 1:02:17Speaker 3: Yeah, but it's but no, it's it's like Okay, two
- 1:02:25Speaker 3: thirds of the predators in schools are male. I still
- 1:02:29Speaker 3: I don't trust this number. And the reason I don't
- 1:02:33Speaker 3: trust this number is because male victims under report compared
- 1:02:39Speaker 3: to female ones, and people don't believe them when they
- 1:02:44Speaker 3: say that they've been victimized, and often they don't even
- 1:02:47Speaker 3: think they've been victimized. Remember what's his name? Chris? Was
- 1:02:51Speaker 3: it Chris Brown? Right, bragging about how he lost his
- 1:02:55Speaker 3: virginity at eight years old?
- 1:02:59Speaker 2: Uh, the Chris Brown, the celebrity.
- 1:03:03Speaker 3: Chris Brown, the.
- 1:03:06Speaker 2: Guy who hit the guy who beat up Rihanna.
- 1:03:08Speaker 3: Yeah, it was him or someone similar to him, someone
- 1:03:13Speaker 3: kind of similarly situated. Might have been jay Z.
- 1:03:18Speaker 2: Actually, there's there, there's a lot. There's a lot of.
- 1:03:22Speaker 1: There are a number of celebrity black men who have
- 1:03:27Speaker 1: stories of sexual experiences that they treat as a boast.
- 1:03:32Speaker 2: But they were like really young when they happen.
- 1:03:34Speaker 1: Yeah and ten, like a ten twelve, And a lot
- 1:03:39Speaker 1: of times it's with like an aunt.
- 1:03:41Speaker 2: So it's not just rape. It's incess.
- 1:03:44Speaker 3: Yeah No, and it's it's not and it's it's with
- 1:03:46Speaker 3: somebody who's substantially older. I mean, like I'm my first
- 1:03:50Speaker 3: sexual or you know kind of makeout session, right, you
- 1:03:54Speaker 3: know when I was I think I was eleven, right,
- 1:03:58Speaker 3: But it was within eleven year old boy, right, It
- 1:04:02Speaker 3: wasn't with It wasn't with an adult, you know, or
- 1:04:07Speaker 3: or an eighteen year old, so you know it's or
- 1:04:11Speaker 3: a seventeen year old. It was with somebody who was
- 1:04:14Speaker 3: like seriously older than me.
- 1:04:16Speaker 2: Right.
- 1:04:17Speaker 1: Somebody in the chat said that Joe Rogan said that
- 1:04:19Speaker 1: he lost his virginity at thirteen to a woman who
- 1:04:21Speaker 1: was thirty. So but but if you asked him if
- 1:04:25Speaker 1: he was raped, he would say no, and in fact,
- 1:04:27Speaker 1: he would think you were like being ridiculous, Yeah, being ridiculous, right, yeah,
- 1:04:33Speaker 1: But I mean if we don't think it's if if
- 1:04:38Speaker 1: he was a girl and it was a man, like like,
- 1:04:42Speaker 1: you know.
- 1:04:43Speaker 3: There's no question that that was exploitation, that that was
- 1:04:49Speaker 3: at least an adult taking advantage of someone who was vulnerable, right,
- 1:04:58Speaker 3: And you know, like so you think, I think I
- 1:05:02Speaker 3: don't trust these numbers because of that skew in our
- 1:05:08Speaker 3: thinking in terms of you know, what happens when a
- 1:05:13Speaker 3: thirty year old woman seduces a thirteen year old or
- 1:05:19Speaker 3: an eleven year old male, Right, Well, that's just a fling.
- 1:05:24Speaker 3: It's seduction, it's hot for teacher, it's whatever, whatever, And
- 1:05:27Speaker 3: the male's the male internalizes that message, right, and so
- 1:05:33Speaker 3: he's not going to complain about it as like a
- 1:05:36Speaker 3: wrong done to him. He's he's going to think he's
- 1:05:38Speaker 3: been blessed, right, like the gods and the angels came
- 1:05:43Speaker 3: down and freaking blessed him with this hot thirty year
- 1:05:46Speaker 3: old teacher and this sexual experience. And it's like, yeah,
- 1:05:51Speaker 3: but you were too young to actually consent to that,
- 1:05:54Speaker 3: and that's what the law says. And I mean you
- 1:05:59Speaker 3: even look even look at that woman who accused Justin
- 1:06:02Speaker 3: Bieber of fathering her kid. Mm hmm remember that, I.
- 1:06:06Speaker 2: Do, I do remember that? Yeah.
- 1:06:08Speaker 3: Yeah. And then once it was brought to her attention
- 1:06:13Speaker 3: that like the alleged sexual encounter that you're describing occurred
- 1:06:19Speaker 3: before he was eighteen years old in California, and that's
- 1:06:22Speaker 3: the age of consent in California, and you were an
- 1:06:25Speaker 3: adult at the time, and so that statutory rape, she
- 1:06:29Speaker 3: was just like, oh, yeah, no, it's not his kid.
- 1:06:32Speaker 2: Mm hmmm, mm hmm hmm.
- 1:06:36Speaker 1: Okay, So yeah, I don't buy these numbers either.
- 1:06:40Speaker 2: I don't know what they are. But I think that's
- 1:06:42Speaker 2: why this thing.
- 1:06:43Speaker 1: From the beginning, I was like, I'm not sure how
- 1:06:45Speaker 1: I'm gonna like be how I'm going to feel about
- 1:06:48Speaker 1: what data that put forward. And I still feel like
- 1:06:51Speaker 1: there's a little bit of let's make this about the
- 1:06:54Speaker 1: women so people take this seriously, or the women and
- 1:06:59Speaker 1: the girls. So it's like, well, I don't think.
- 1:07:01Speaker 3: It's a boy. If it's a boy, you know, like
- 1:07:05Speaker 3: two thirds of the perpetrators are male. Yeah, yeah, and
- 1:07:10Speaker 3: they're actually being victimized and not just treated to like,
- 1:07:14Speaker 3: you know, something special.
- 1:07:17Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly.
- 1:07:19Speaker 1: So yeah, I struggle with this because in this I've
- 1:07:24Speaker 1: done some substitute teaching.
- 1:07:25Speaker 2: I know this is anecdotal.
- 1:07:27Speaker 1: I don't think it's necessary to make this case, but
- 1:07:29Speaker 1: when I worked in the doing subbing here in Virginia,
- 1:07:34Speaker 1: I did it for about a year and every school
- 1:07:36Speaker 1: I was at, I was like the only male teacher
- 1:07:39Speaker 1: and I was a sub you know, and all the
- 1:07:41Speaker 1: women were like, oh, it's so good to have a
- 1:07:43Speaker 1: man around, you know, Like that's how they were. So
- 1:07:46Speaker 1: I mean, and I'm not saying that that kind of
- 1:07:48Speaker 1: stuff happens here, although statistically it's likely on some level somewhere.
- 1:07:53Speaker 1: But it seems to me that if there is an
- 1:07:55Speaker 1: industry that is overwhelmingly majority female and there are incidents
- 1:08:02Speaker 1: of sexual assault in that industry, to put it on
- 1:08:06Speaker 1: the few men that actually are there, even though I'm
- 1:08:09Speaker 1: sure that there are men that are doing it, I'm
- 1:08:11Speaker 1: not I'm not denying that at all. It seems like
- 1:08:15Speaker 1: you're really trying to, you know, create a framework that
- 1:08:19Speaker 1: we look at this through, and I don't think it's
- 1:08:21Speaker 1: going to give you the results you want, because like,
- 1:08:24Speaker 1: the only way we're going to change it is if
- 1:08:25Speaker 1: we hold women as accountable regardless of the context, as
- 1:08:30Speaker 1: we do men. And we have to look at the
- 1:08:32Speaker 1: possibility that it's you know that women are a part
- 1:08:35Speaker 1: of this, but sure, yeah, no.
- 1:08:38Speaker 3: But at the same time, when you look at it,
- 1:08:42Speaker 3: it's about getting people to actually care. And we all
- 1:08:45Speaker 3: know it's not just a zero sum game and it's
- 1:08:50Speaker 3: a negative some game, right, And so it's like, if
- 1:08:54Speaker 3: we're going to get people to care, it really has
- 1:08:58Speaker 3: to be kind of male perpetrator female victim paradigm to
- 1:09:03Speaker 3: get anybody to even care to look at it and
- 1:09:06Speaker 3: investigate it. And I mean that's probably the biggest indictment
- 1:09:10Speaker 3: of our society, you know, right there?
- 1:09:14Speaker 2: Yeah, for sure. I'm sure Aaron Pittsy would like to
- 1:09:18Speaker 2: have some words.
- 1:09:19Speaker 1: All right, I got a rumble rant from Nova Fan
- 1:09:22Speaker 1: twenty one. He says, Joe Rogan, you got laid walk
- 1:09:26Speaker 1: it off?
- 1:09:27Speaker 2: Oh thank you?
- 1:09:28Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I mean, you know, And then I remember
- 1:09:32Speaker 3: his comments on like men's rights activists, you know, well
- 1:09:35Speaker 3: they want to draw attention to the rape of men.
- 1:09:38Speaker 3: Well you know, well it's men doing it, like so,
- 1:09:40Speaker 3: how are they doing anything? And it's like, okay, well,
- 1:09:44Speaker 3: number one, even if it was only men raping men,
- 1:09:50Speaker 3: which it isn't. But even if it was, right, that
- 1:09:55Speaker 3: doesn't mean that justice should be denied to the victctims.
- 1:10:00Speaker 3: It doesn't mean that they're not victims, right, And it
- 1:10:06Speaker 3: doesn't mean that men's rights activists should should avoid the
- 1:10:11Speaker 3: topic because it makes men look bad because it's mostly
- 1:10:15Speaker 3: men who are raping men, or it's all men who
- 1:10:18Speaker 3: are raping men, because I guess he buys into the
- 1:10:22Speaker 3: you can only rape with a penis kind of thing,
- 1:10:26Speaker 3: like no, no, like just because something's inconvenient for the
- 1:10:33Speaker 3: I guess the pr right the public relations aspect of
- 1:10:38Speaker 3: men's rights advocacy doesn't mean you drop it as a topic.
- 1:10:42Speaker 3: It doesn't mean you drop it as an issue because
- 1:10:43Speaker 3: it is an issue, right.
- 1:10:46Speaker 6: Like.
- 1:10:48Speaker 3: I'm sorry, but the you know, the the sexual abuse
- 1:10:52Speaker 3: of boys in the Catholic Church was an issue for
- 1:10:57Speaker 3: men and boys, and it is an issue for men
- 1:11:01Speaker 3: and boys, right, And it is and it falls under
- 1:11:06Speaker 3: the rubric of advocacy for men and boys, right because
- 1:11:13Speaker 3: the victims are boys, and as far as I'm concerned,
- 1:11:18Speaker 3: it's likely that the perpetrators are also victims of abuse
- 1:11:25Speaker 3: when they were kids. Right, So I mean, like I mean,
- 1:11:29Speaker 3: and the Catholic Church. There's a reason why this is
- 1:11:32Speaker 3: so concentrated in the Catholic Church, and that's because of
- 1:11:37Speaker 3: the vow of celibacy and and the fact that they
- 1:11:44Speaker 3: actively recruited gay men into the clergy because it was.
- 1:11:53Speaker 2: It was a way way of uh, you know them
- 1:11:57Speaker 2: from yeah.
- 1:11:59Speaker 3: From sinning. It was like, okay, so you can you
- 1:12:01Speaker 3: can be a priest and take a vow of celibacy
- 1:12:05Speaker 3: and you will be prevented from sinning. And because it's you,
- 1:12:12Speaker 3: you love the sinner, but you hate the sin. And
- 1:12:14Speaker 3: so by actively recruiting them into the clergy, they they
- 1:12:20Speaker 3: were preventing the sin and loving the sinner, and well
- 1:12:25Speaker 3: it didn't work out that great.
- 1:12:27Speaker 1: Well it didn't always work out. I'm sure that even
- 1:12:31Speaker 1: when it did happen, it wasn't. I doubt it was
- 1:12:33Speaker 1: a majority, but I don't know. But yeah, I mean
- 1:12:36Speaker 1: to your point about this is another thing that I
- 1:12:39Speaker 1: think a lot of these people who give a pass
- 1:12:41Speaker 1: to teachers raping their students, and I'm just gonna call
- 1:12:45Speaker 1: it raping. They're male students in particular, but any students,
- 1:12:49Speaker 1: is that they treat it as it's timilating, it's trivial,
- 1:12:54Speaker 1: it's funny, it's cool, whatever.
- 1:12:57Speaker 2: But the thing is that it well, yeah, but it's all.
- 1:13:01Speaker 1: But it is also a root problem in the people
- 1:13:06Speaker 1: who go on to become predatory later is that often
- 1:13:10Speaker 1: they have experiences in their own young life. So like,
- 1:13:13Speaker 1: if you want to it's just like Aaron Pitsy said,
- 1:13:15Speaker 1: That's why I mentioned her. If you want to end
- 1:13:17Speaker 1: the cycle of abuse, if you want to end the
- 1:13:19Speaker 1: cycle of rape, and I'm not saying it'll ever be
- 1:13:22Speaker 1: completely wiped out, because that's not possible. We don't live
- 1:13:25Speaker 1: we live on earth, right, But if you want to
- 1:13:28Speaker 1: like really cut back you have to address abuse of
- 1:13:32Speaker 1: boys with the same energy that bring that same energy
- 1:13:36Speaker 1: to that as you do for girls, regardless of you know,
- 1:13:40Speaker 1: like treating it as as a nothing burger because boys,
- 1:13:44Speaker 1: you know, they wanted it or they liked it, because
- 1:13:46Speaker 1: if you had said that about a girl, you'd probably
- 1:13:48Speaker 1: like be canceled, wouldn't have a job or whatever.
- 1:13:50Speaker 2: But you're also doing.
- 1:13:52Speaker 1: That those those boys of favor, because even if they
- 1:13:56Speaker 1: think that's what they wanted, it may have a detrimental
- 1:14:00Speaker 1: effect on how they view stex and relationships when they
- 1:14:02Speaker 1: become adults, and that could become a problem because you know,
- 1:14:06Speaker 1: like they're like, I mean, like I said, maybe you'll
- 1:14:09Speaker 1: turn out okay, but I don't think that it's worth treating.
- 1:14:13Speaker 2: So cavalier to do that.
- 1:14:16Speaker 3: I agreed, So all right.
- 1:14:19Speaker 2: Anyway back to this.
- 1:14:20Speaker 1: So, yeah, they found most of the victims are female
- 1:14:23Speaker 1: and the majority of incidents involve high schools.
- 1:14:26Speaker 2: The problem is not confined to public schools, although the
- 1:14:28Speaker 2: public school.
- 1:14:29Speaker 1: Student population dwarfs that of private and parochial schools. Incidents
- 1:14:34Speaker 1: of sexual misconduct at tony schools like New York's Horace
- 1:14:37Speaker 1: Men or at Saint George's in Rhode Island are two
- 1:14:40Speaker 1: of the most publicized examples of the problem. Protecting kids
- 1:14:44Speaker 1: in school from inappropriate or criminal sexual activity involving employees
- 1:14:48Speaker 1: and students would seem a sure fire winner, but instead
- 1:14:52Speaker 1: Devas and her team found it was a political football.
- 1:14:56Speaker 1: Union contracts and in many cases state law protect the
- 1:15:00Speaker 1: privacy of employees that what that meant, DeVos explained, is
- 1:15:05Speaker 1: that even if credible allegations of sexual misconduct were leveled
- 1:15:08Speaker 1: against an employee, unless authorities were called in or an
- 1:15:11Speaker 1: arrest was made, the alleged perpetrator was often free to
- 1:15:15Speaker 1: leave one school and go work in another. YEP, the
- 1:15:20Speaker 1: definitions of what constitute sexual misconduct could be broadly construed,
- 1:15:25Speaker 1: and the proliferation of social media has not only loosened
- 1:15:28Speaker 1: the boundaries of contact.
- 1:15:30Speaker 2: Between school employees and students.
- 1:15:32Speaker 1: But provided more opportunities for wrongdoers still for the most
- 1:15:36Speaker 1: severe conduct. The Trump administration finally introduced on the twenty
- 1:15:41Speaker 1: twenty one school year questionnaire specific questions regarding a school
- 1:15:46Speaker 1: staff member and rape or attempted rape.
- 1:15:50Speaker 2: Answers for the initial year.
- 1:15:51Speaker 1: Were optional, as is common with new reporting requirements, and
- 1:15:55Speaker 1: the DOE declined to make the results public, but in
- 1:15:58Speaker 1: any case, those figures would be hopelessly incomplete because of
- 1:16:03Speaker 1: the widespread school closures that were part of the COVID response.
- 1:16:09Speaker 1: Even with the new questions, Miller wondered, how clear the
- 1:16:12Speaker 1: picture we provide it might be because for now, ocr
- 1:16:16Speaker 1: is asking only about incidents that occurred on school grounds.
- 1:16:20Speaker 2: That means incidents that happen.
- 1:16:22Speaker 1: In a car or in an apartment or anywhere off
- 1:16:25Speaker 1: campus would not be included, and that's where the majority
- 1:16:27Speaker 1: of these attacks happened.
- 1:16:29Speaker 2: She said, oh, yeah, well that's true.
- 1:16:31Speaker 1: Yep, because a lot of the stories becover where women
- 1:16:34Speaker 1: are banging their students.
- 1:16:36Speaker 2: It's they're not doing it in class, No, they're doing.
- 1:16:39Speaker 3: It in the school because it's.
- 1:16:41Speaker 2: No, they're meeting them.
- 1:16:44Speaker 1: They're meeting with them, like and they're going to you know,
- 1:16:47Speaker 1: he goes to the teacher's house, or she goes to
- 1:16:50Speaker 1: his place.
- 1:16:50Speaker 2: Usually he goes to her place.
- 1:16:52Speaker 3: Yeah, or they get together in a car.
- 1:16:56Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, exactly.
- 1:17:00Speaker 1: So the same problem had confronted one of Devas's top lieutenants,
- 1:17:04Speaker 1: Kimberly Ritchie, when she served as chief counsel to the
- 1:17:08Speaker 1: school system in Oklahoma. Even in a deeply conservative state,
- 1:17:13Speaker 1: Richie found few supporters. When surprised by how many complaints
- 1:17:16Speaker 1: were reaching her desk, she approached.
- 1:17:18Speaker 2: Lawmakers in Norman about changes.
- 1:17:21Speaker 1: I met with resistance from the very beginning, she said,
- 1:17:24Speaker 1: And I had complaints ninety five percent of the time
- 1:17:27Speaker 1: coming from parents about a school or a teacher, and
- 1:17:31Speaker 1: when I contacted them, the teacher would immediately resign, travel
- 1:17:34Speaker 1: five miles to the.
- 1:17:35Speaker 2: Next district and start working there.
- 1:17:38Speaker 1: Whoa Several people who spoke with RCI said teachers' union's
- 1:17:44Speaker 1: contracts were a major obstacle to both moving forward with
- 1:17:48Speaker 1: credible allegations of sexual misconduct and blocking future school employment
- 1:17:52Speaker 1: for alleged perpetrators. Neither the American Federation of Teachers nor
- 1:17:57Speaker 1: the National Education Association responded to questions from RCI about
- 1:18:02Speaker 1: this topic.
- 1:18:04Speaker 2: Teachers aren't the only obstacles to reform.
- 1:18:06Speaker 1: Superintendent of Public Education in Oklahoma from twenty eleven to
- 1:18:09Speaker 1: twenty fifteen, Janet Barresi said state groups lobbying on behalf
- 1:18:13Speaker 1: of school administrators and board members were much more vociferous
- 1:18:16Speaker 1: opponents than teachers unions of laws that would force schools
- 1:18:20Speaker 1: to disclose information about prior allegations and cases involving school employees,
- 1:18:26Speaker 1: so state groups and lobbyists, so lobbying on behalf of
- 1:18:31Speaker 1: school administrators and board members.
- 1:18:33Speaker 2: So the school board was an.
- 1:18:35Speaker 1: Obstacle then, at least in this example.
- 1:18:42Speaker 3: Because what happened. Look at what happened in Virginia when
- 1:18:44Speaker 3: that guy was arrested at the school board meeting.
- 1:18:48Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah, I remember, yeah, because his daughter was
- 1:18:52Speaker 1: like yeah, in a changing room or a bathroom.
- 1:18:55Speaker 3: It was in a bathroom, and she was orally raped
- 1:18:59Speaker 3: by a male student in address. And and they just
- 1:19:05Speaker 3: quietly moved the male student to a different school, transferred
- 1:19:10Speaker 3: him and and and that was that, and just didn't
- 1:19:15Speaker 3: do any didn't take any further action. And it's like, oh,
- 1:19:18Speaker 3: well that's great, Like I'm sure he's going to find
- 1:19:22Speaker 3: another girl he likes at his new school. Mm hm,
- 1:19:26Speaker 3: Like I'm just you look at it, and it's like
- 1:19:29Speaker 3: they don't want to deal with it. And then the
- 1:19:32Speaker 3: dad gets mad and starts yelling, and and then they
- 1:19:37Speaker 3: arrest him for I don't know, well, they went to
- 1:19:42Speaker 3: arrest him, they grabbed him and then he resisted because
- 1:19:46Speaker 3: he didn't even know who was grabbing him from behind.
- 1:19:49Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, And then they they're like, oh, you were
- 1:19:52Speaker 3: resisting arrest, and it's like yeah, and now he's on
- 1:19:58Speaker 3: some fucking terrorist watch with you and me.
- 1:20:01Speaker 2: Brian, Yeah, I'm sure that. I'm sure that we all are.
- 1:20:06Speaker 2: Actually you guys watching at home are also on a
- 1:20:08Speaker 2: watch list. I'm sure.
- 1:20:11Speaker 1: Just because we're talking about, you know, boys being raped
- 1:20:14Speaker 1: in school.
- 1:20:15Speaker 3: You're getting an extra pat down by TSA. Yeah, yeah,
- 1:20:20Speaker 3: don't vacation in Europe anytime soon either.
- 1:20:24Speaker 1: I want a female to do the search, if that's okay, Okay,
- 1:20:30Speaker 1: So anyway, let me see if this, If the system
- 1:20:36Speaker 1: would be more open and honest about all this, then
- 1:20:38Speaker 1: parents would feel more relieved, and it would just it
- 1:20:41Speaker 1: would get rid of a great deal of rumor and conjecture.
- 1:20:43Speaker 1: For as he said, it is those employee projections that
- 1:20:47Speaker 1: produce a pattern known as passing the trash. Several experts
- 1:20:50Speaker 1: told RCI this is particularly relevant in cases where state
- 1:20:55Speaker 1: or local law enforcement agencies are never notified of allegations.
- 1:20:59Speaker 1: A school may launch investigation after a parent or student
- 1:21:02Speaker 1: files a complaint, but the investigation would cease when the
- 1:21:05Speaker 1: employee resigned, and then state law or bargaining agreements often
- 1:21:09Speaker 1: prohibit officials and administrators from relaying such information to any
- 1:21:14Speaker 1: new school where the alleged perpetrator applied or began working.
- 1:21:19Speaker 2: Did you want to say something about that, you're shaking
- 1:21:22Speaker 2: your head over there.
- 1:21:25Speaker 3: Well, it's like uh that Nova Scotia nursing home nurse.
- 1:21:33Speaker 3: You just you just can't relay the information to any
- 1:21:37Speaker 3: future employers. And so it's like, good luck with that.
- 1:21:42Speaker 3: You haven't been warned.
- 1:21:45Speaker 1: That's crazy, yeah, because I mean they're basically guaranteed.
- 1:21:49Speaker 3: Work, like, uh, you're a if you're in a union.
- 1:21:54Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, that's what I'm saying.
- 1:21:56Speaker 1: Like I because like if I was working at a
- 1:22:01Speaker 1: grocery store and I was caught drinking beers that I
- 1:22:05Speaker 1: had stolen in the back and they fired me and
- 1:22:08Speaker 1: I go to another grocery store, would it be messed
- 1:22:12Speaker 1: up if that's the previous store could not say? Yeah,
- 1:22:17Speaker 1: when they call and they say, I can tell them,
- 1:22:19Speaker 1: well I just quit, you know it with a really
- 1:22:21Speaker 1: toxic work environment. And then they they can't go to
- 1:22:25Speaker 1: the my previous employer and ask them, you know what,
- 1:22:28Speaker 1: why did he get why is he no longer with
- 1:22:30Speaker 1: you guys? And they have to say, well, we can't stay.
- 1:22:33Speaker 1: But it was I guess, like totally amicable. He wasn't
- 1:22:37Speaker 1: in the back drinking our beers and not.
- 1:22:39Speaker 3: Well they well they can't they can't even hint it
- 1:22:43Speaker 3: at what happened. Yeah, yeah, right, and it's just like no, no,
- 1:22:47Speaker 3: this is this is like it's unsustainable. This is why
- 1:22:50Speaker 3: unions really bother me, and they have for a long time.
- 1:22:53Speaker 3: And it's this because they protect they protect cheaters, and.
- 1:23:00Speaker 2: Yeah, they protect the least deserving people.
- 1:23:04Speaker 3: Yes, And then you know, like if you're somebody who's
- 1:23:07Speaker 3: like you know, who's who's actually got a legitimate grievance,
- 1:23:14Speaker 3: you know, often you find yourself twisting in the wind
- 1:23:16Speaker 3: right and it's just like it it is kind of
- 1:23:20Speaker 3: capricious and arbitrary, but it's all part of the contract,
- 1:23:24Speaker 3: and you know, so it's it's infuriating and but at
- 1:23:31Speaker 3: the same time, I am not trying to convince my
- 1:23:37Speaker 3: husband to leave the union yet. We'll wait and see
- 1:23:42Speaker 3: December twenty twenty six when our mortgage comes up for renewal.
- 1:23:49Speaker 1: Miller said SESAME has model legislation states. Miller said SESAME
- 1:23:56Speaker 1: has model legislation states could pass to front the problem,
- 1:24:01Speaker 1: but thus far, the group has found limited success. Yeah, well,
- 1:24:05Speaker 1: meaning groups can't really get their leg in the door.
- 1:24:09Speaker 2: They're foot in the door. On that.
- 1:24:10Speaker 1: The Enough Abuse campaign, which did not respond to rci's questions,
- 1:24:15Speaker 1: notes that age of consent laws and the definitions of
- 1:24:18Speaker 1: what constitutes sexual misconduct have created a complicated legal and
- 1:24:22Speaker 1: regulatory map. Still, the campaign seems more optimistic about legislative
- 1:24:28Speaker 1: process than Sesame, declaring that quote, over seventy five percent
- 1:24:32Speaker 1: of states have now passed legislation specifically outlawn, outlawing educators
- 1:24:38Speaker 1: sexual misconduct and end quote in recognition of the power
- 1:24:42Speaker 1: imbalance that exists in a teacher student relationship.
- 1:24:46Speaker 2: Okay, I have the link here.
- 1:24:49Speaker 1: It is a it's a bit complicated about I'll just
- 1:24:52Speaker 1: go back to the article. Maybe we can look at
- 1:24:54Speaker 1: that another time.
- 1:24:55Speaker 3: Yeah, But like the basically what they're saying is if
- 1:25:01Speaker 3: you're in a position of authority over someone, basically if
- 1:25:08Speaker 3: you can say, well, if you have sex with me,
- 1:25:12Speaker 3: I'll give you an A and if you don't have
- 1:25:14Speaker 3: sex with me, I'll give you an F. Right, that's coercion,
- 1:25:21Speaker 3: that that's exploitation. Right, So, and it's the same you know,
- 1:25:26Speaker 3: like they have laws here in Canada, right because for
- 1:25:29Speaker 3: the longest time. The age of consent in Canada was fourteen, right, really, yeah,
- 1:25:36Speaker 3: age of consent was fourteen to have sex with an adult,
- 1:25:41Speaker 3: and they raise it to sixteen sometime after I was fourteen.
- 1:25:48Speaker 3: But there are exceptions, and those exceptions are if you
- 1:25:53Speaker 3: are in a position of trust or authority over that person, right,
- 1:25:58Speaker 3: like you have to you have to be at least
- 1:26:02Speaker 3: sixteen years old in Canada to sleep with an adult.
- 1:26:06Speaker 3: And you can't sleep with your teacher. It's not it's
- 1:26:12Speaker 3: that's the story rape.
- 1:26:14Speaker 2: Right Yeah? Yeah, okay, so let me see where was I?
- 1:26:24Speaker 1: And there are some science lawmakers are grasping the enormity
- 1:26:27Speaker 1: of the issue.
- 1:26:29Speaker 2: That with regards to the previous paragraph.
- 1:26:31Speaker 1: On July first, and Oklahoma law went into effect mandating
- 1:26:35Speaker 1: any verbal or social media contact between school employees and
- 1:26:39Speaker 1: students be done on platforms the school controls, which state
- 1:26:43Speaker 1: Representative Sherry Conley called a quote long overdue end quote regulation.
- 1:26:50Speaker 3: That's that should just be a given right. And it doesn't.
- 1:26:53Speaker 3: It doesn't even interrupt students from trolling their teachers for
- 1:26:57Speaker 3: folk's sake.
- 1:27:00Speaker 1: Yeah, like like a like an in like an in
- 1:27:02Speaker 1: school like portal that has emails and where you can
- 1:27:07Speaker 1: look up your assignments and things.
- 1:27:08Speaker 2: Like that and ask questions of the teacher.
- 1:27:11Speaker 3: Yeah, and you have access to your teacher's email. Like
- 1:27:14Speaker 3: Sam my youngest, Uh, mister Williams and him had a
- 1:27:19Speaker 3: special relationship, and that relationship was Sam would sign him
- 1:27:26Speaker 3: up for flyers, sign his email up for every flyer
- 1:27:30Speaker 3: he could find online and uh, and then also send
- 1:27:35Speaker 3: him dank memes. And he'd spend all day doing this
- 1:27:42Speaker 3: until one day, one day, Sam was in computer science
- 1:27:47Speaker 3: and sending some memes and some flyer uh subscriptions and
- 1:27:53Speaker 3: uh and then uh, mister Williams, his social studies teacher,
- 1:27:58Speaker 3: came his class and came down and stuck his head
- 1:28:05Speaker 3: in the door and said, Sam, I'm gonna need you
- 1:28:07Speaker 3: to stop doing that. So, but it was all on
- 1:28:14Speaker 3: the the school's freaking email list, right like. It's it's
- 1:28:21Speaker 3: not like he had mister Williams's personal cell phone number
- 1:28:24Speaker 3: or anything like. No, it's there's no reason to be
- 1:28:31Speaker 3: on your teacher's personal email account or personal cell phone
- 1:28:37Speaker 3: number or anything like that, right Like, there's absolutely no
- 1:28:41Speaker 3: reason for that other than setting up freaking dates.
- 1:28:47Speaker 1: I guess yeah, yeah, well I think I think it's
- 1:28:53Speaker 1: a fair exchange. Memes they have they have a they
- 1:28:56Speaker 1: have a rising market value like the NFT.
- 1:29:02Speaker 3: Well, these were all Minion memes from.
- 1:29:05Speaker 1: Oh, Minion memes are kind of low. They're kind of
- 1:29:07Speaker 1: like I think they're on the lower end. I don't
- 1:29:10Speaker 1: know what to check the stock market for that, but
- 1:29:13Speaker 1: I don't think the memes are worth as much, are they?
- 1:29:16Speaker 3: Honest, I don't. I have no idea the currency of
- 1:29:20Speaker 3: memes and what the going rate is. I just know
- 1:29:24Speaker 3: that Sam he had he was just like mister Williams.
- 1:29:30Speaker 3: Hees like I think he'd appreciate Minion memes And I
- 1:29:35Speaker 3: don't know. So you just like bombarded the guy's email,
- 1:29:38Speaker 3: like probably thirty emails a day between the signing up
- 1:29:43Speaker 3: for flyers and the you've signed up for the Walmart flyer,
- 1:29:47Speaker 3: You've signed up for this flyer, You've signed up for
- 1:29:50Speaker 3: that flyer, right, and then the U and then the memes.
- 1:29:56Speaker 1: So okay, well that sounds like that's like boomer shit,
- 1:30:02Speaker 1: Like I think Minions, Betty Boop, Disney princesses and those
- 1:30:09Speaker 1: are all boomery memes.
- 1:30:10Speaker 2: They're like ancient, like for like for wine moms.
- 1:30:13Speaker 1: You know, do you remember the old MySpace and people
- 1:30:16Speaker 1: will put up like an image of Betty Boop and
- 1:30:18Speaker 1: that'd be like these like sparkly glitter pattern that would
- 1:30:21Speaker 1: move throughout the image. That that's what that's where the
- 1:30:24Speaker 1: minions are at. That's like that level in my opinion.
- 1:30:28Speaker 3: Well, I don't. I don't remember my Space because by
- 1:30:30Speaker 3: the time I, this boomer got on the Internet, my
- 1:30:35Speaker 3: Space was done. It wasn't I don't go on. It
- 1:30:38Speaker 3: wasn't a thing.
- 1:30:38Speaker 2: I don't think you're a boomer, Karen. I think you're
- 1:30:40Speaker 2: an exert like me.
- 1:30:42Speaker 3: Well, yes, no, I'm yes an excerpt. But I wasn't
- 1:30:47Speaker 3: even on the Internet until two thousand and six.
- 1:30:51Speaker 2: Ah okay, yeah, fair enough.
- 1:30:53Speaker 1: I got on the internet in the in the late nineties,
- 1:30:56Speaker 1: and I was also late to the Internet as well.
- 1:30:59Speaker 3: So how boomer? How boomer am I two thousand and
- 1:31:03Speaker 3: pretty boomer?
- 1:31:04Speaker 2: That's pretty boomer.
- 1:31:06Speaker 3: Although my mom, even my mom is not such a
- 1:31:09Speaker 3: big boomer. She's like eighty two and she was on
- 1:31:12Speaker 3: the Internet before I was.
- 1:31:13Speaker 2: My mother is a boomer.
- 1:31:15Speaker 1: She she used the Internet for only like two things
- 1:31:19Speaker 1: because she's terrified of going to any websites because she's
- 1:31:23Speaker 1: sure she's gonna get viruses in her stolen and yeah,
- 1:31:27Speaker 1: so she doesn't go anywhere. She she won't do anything
- 1:31:30Speaker 1: without my nephew's you know, supervision. Like he's going to
- 1:31:35Speaker 1: go to the websites for her so that she can
- 1:31:37Speaker 1: upload photos she took.
- 1:31:41Speaker 3: Yeah, that's that's hilarious. Even my mom's not like that. No,
- 1:31:46Speaker 3: she's she's like, she's she's like she she has like
- 1:31:51Speaker 3: multiple email accounts, and she's got multiple she's got like
- 1:31:55Speaker 3: a smart TV and you know, and Alexa, and she's
- 1:32:00Speaker 3: she's like she's all like wired into everything. She might
- 1:32:04Speaker 3: as well get a neuralink.
- 1:32:06Speaker 2: She might as well. Yeah, I understand it's going to
- 1:32:10Speaker 2: be doing everything. So anyway, let me let me get
- 1:32:13Speaker 2: through the rest of this.
- 1:32:15Speaker 1: So Similarly, in Michigan, State Representative Brad Piquette, himself a teacher,
- 1:32:21Speaker 1: has proposed legislation appointing a state ombudsman to deal with
- 1:32:26Speaker 1: sexual misconduct complaints.
- 1:32:28Speaker 2: It's just the beginning, but we have to start.
- 1:32:30Speaker 1: Somewhere, Piquette told Urci, I first heard back in twenty
- 1:32:34Speaker 1: twelve or twenty thirteen when I started teaching that I
- 1:32:37Speaker 1: had to join the union because I might have an
- 1:32:39Speaker 1: accusation filed against me, but I thought, no, I should be.
- 1:32:43Speaker 2: Fired if I did something wrong. End quote. I think
- 1:32:47Speaker 2: we need to be engaged.
- 1:32:48Speaker 1: I don't somehow I don't believe the unions would stick
- 1:32:51Speaker 1: up for a male teacher that was accused of something.
- 1:32:54Speaker 2: But do you think so too? Yeah, Okay, I mean
- 1:32:58Speaker 2: I guess I have to.
- 1:32:59Speaker 1: But I think we need to be engaged aggressively to
- 1:33:03Speaker 1: root out the problem. He said, there's no good reason
- 1:33:06Speaker 1: for us to take a lax approach. You see these
- 1:33:09Speaker 1: headlines all over the place, and it's unacceptable.
- 1:33:11Speaker 2: People need to start asking questions. While Richie said she
- 1:33:15Speaker 2: did not.
- 1:33:16Speaker 1: Recall any credible allegations crossing her desk during a brief
- 1:33:20Speaker 1: stint as an attorney with Virginia Schools, pequets everywhere assessment
- 1:33:24Speaker 1: seems to be on the mark. In Texas, for example,
- 1:33:27Speaker 1: the other the online site Texas Scorecard, started looking at
- 1:33:31Speaker 1: the issue in twenty twenty two after administrators Improsper a
- 1:33:34Speaker 1: swanky Dallas suburb attempted to cover up alleged repeated sexual
- 1:33:38Speaker 1: offenses by a school bus driver school bus driver.
- 1:33:42Speaker 2: Since then, Texas What's going on over there?
- 1:33:45Speaker 1: Texas Guard has kept an unofficial tally of such incidents,
- 1:33:50Speaker 1: and the lone Star state has had more than one
- 1:33:53Speaker 1: ordred cases every year since. Let me see, I think
- 1:33:59Speaker 1: they're just giving more examples. I kind of want to
- 1:34:01Speaker 1: skip ahead of that. Yeah, let me see if I
- 1:34:06Speaker 1: can find one other maybe like a maybe we'll get
- 1:34:09Speaker 1: to like a kind of a sum up in here.
- 1:34:12Speaker 1: So last year, the Defensive Freedom Institute released a report
- 1:34:18Speaker 1: titled Catching the Trash that concluded sexual misconduct by school
- 1:34:22Speaker 1: employees has raged in the school system for decades.
- 1:34:26Speaker 2: Various actors, school and district.
- 1:34:28Speaker 1: Personnel, teachers, unions, and the federal department charged with enforcing
- 1:34:31Speaker 1: laws against sexual assaults in public schools bear responsibility for
- 1:34:35Speaker 1: systemic failure in preventing and responding to sexual assaults in
- 1:34:39Speaker 1: public schools, the report says, pointing to the Bid administration's
- 1:34:42Speaker 1: attempt to remove specific questions about the issue from the
- 1:34:45Speaker 1: ocr questionnaire, Report author Paul Zimmerman told RCI the public
- 1:34:50Speaker 1: should not expect much daylight in the on the topic
- 1:34:54Speaker 1: in the near future. The Biden administration has gone dark
- 1:34:57Speaker 1: on this. They're not interested in pressing this issue. As
- 1:35:00Speaker 1: evidence by trying to discontinue the efforts made on this
- 1:35:03Speaker 1: front by the previous administration. He said, these political bumps
- 1:35:07Speaker 1: and the wreckage the COVID shutdowns unleashed on education in America.
- 1:35:11Speaker 2: I wonder though, if kids weren't safer.
- 1:35:13Speaker 1: When they were at home, Like I know, they keep
- 1:35:16Speaker 1: saying that it was really bad, but considering what's going
- 1:35:18Speaker 1: on in schools, I don't know, means there is no
- 1:35:21Speaker 1: way of tackling the problems dimensions, let alone the problem itself.
- 1:35:25Speaker 1: It takes so long to get these numbers that in
- 1:35:27Speaker 1: the end they're not that helpful.
- 1:35:29Speaker 2: He said.
- 1:35:31Speaker 1: The best way to block the passage of trash is
- 1:35:33Speaker 1: through the Sesame Act, which DOE Department of Education has
- 1:35:37Speaker 1: cited as model legislation for states. To date, only a
- 1:35:43Speaker 1: handful of states have passed it, most recently Illinois in
- 1:35:46Speaker 1: twenty twenty three.
- 1:35:47Speaker 2: Well, that's kind of promising.
- 1:35:49Speaker 1: It requires the prohibition of non disclosure agreements in personal
- 1:35:54Speaker 1: or collectively bargained contracts, as deep background checks on all
- 1:35:59Speaker 1: applic kids.
- 1:36:01Speaker 3: I I would I, you know, like give up the
- 1:36:03Speaker 3: ladder and just stick with the former, the prohibiting non
- 1:36:08Speaker 3: disclosure agreements, That would I mean? Okay, Well, what was okay,
- 1:36:17Speaker 3: Harvey Weinstein? Okay? What was his paper trail, A bunch
- 1:36:26Speaker 3: of sealed files sealed by non disclosure agreements. He paid
- 1:36:32Speaker 3: women to be quiet, and you know, like there's nothing
- 1:36:37Speaker 3: illegal about a non disclosure agreement unless it's covering up
- 1:36:42Speaker 3: a crime, right, Okay, then it's bribing a witness, Okay.
- 1:36:50Speaker 3: But you know, as long as the witness says there
- 1:36:57Speaker 3: is no crime and agrees there is no crime, then
- 1:37:01Speaker 3: not talking about it is perfectly legal to purchase, right.
- 1:37:06Speaker 3: And so I mean, like it's it's a very murky
- 1:37:08Speaker 3: freakin' area. But if if you've been accused right of something,
- 1:37:13Speaker 3: I would say, you know, just get rid of the
- 1:37:18Speaker 3: non disclosure agreements, but do it in tandem with introducing
- 1:37:23Speaker 3: actual due process. Okay, how about that? How about that right,
- 1:37:31Speaker 3: so that it's not you know, like it's the passing
- 1:37:34Speaker 3: the trash, right, we're just passing it on to the
- 1:37:36Speaker 3: next school, right. Well, instead of doing that, why don't
- 1:37:39Speaker 3: you actually do your due diligence, find out if the
- 1:37:42Speaker 3: guy actually or the woman actually did it right, and
- 1:37:47Speaker 3: then report it to police if you find that there's
- 1:37:51Speaker 3: actual something there at something there, right, and then the
- 1:37:55Speaker 3: police can take care of it, and then it's no
- 1:37:58Speaker 3: longer your problem and you've on your job, is that
- 1:38:01Speaker 3: as an administrator of a school. Right. This has always
- 1:38:05Speaker 3: bothered me about about you know, the universities in particular
- 1:38:12Speaker 3: there their approach to sexual assault claims on campus, right
- 1:38:17Speaker 3: is is the the fact that they take it into
- 1:38:22Speaker 3: these kangaroo courts that are fair to no one, right,
- 1:38:26Speaker 3: and and then and there's no due process at all.
- 1:38:31Speaker 3: It's and and it's it's just absolutely retarded. Right.
- 1:38:36Speaker 1: No, Well, they and they don't allow They often just
- 1:38:38Speaker 1: want to get it over with as fast as possible.
- 1:38:41Speaker 2: Right. They don't want to.
- 1:38:41Speaker 1: They don't like, they don't allow any evidence on the
- 1:38:44Speaker 1: defensive side, like a lot of times because they just
- 1:38:46Speaker 1: want they don't they don't want to streamline it.
- 1:38:49Speaker 3: Yeah. No. And it's like if there's probable cause, if
- 1:38:52Speaker 3: there's probable cause, reported to the fault fucking police, right, report,
- 1:39:00Speaker 3: and then they will do an investigation. They have investigatory
- 1:39:04Speaker 3: tools that you don't, right. They have subpoena power you don't. Right.
- 1:39:10Speaker 3: They can go and look at phone records you can't, okay, Right,
- 1:39:16Speaker 3: they have all of the tools there. That's their job
- 1:39:22Speaker 3: is investigating crimes for which there is probable cause. So
- 1:39:27Speaker 3: if you think to yourself, well, I'm confronted with this
- 1:39:30Speaker 3: situation and I believe there's probable cause, Yeah, it's not
- 1:39:35Speaker 3: up to you to adjudicate that now. I mean, maybe
- 1:39:39Speaker 3: you in you take some intermediary action like Okay, well
- 1:39:44Speaker 3: you guys can't attend the same classes, right, Or he
- 1:39:48Speaker 3: can't live in the same dorm building as you. We're
- 1:39:52Speaker 3: gonna have to shuffle in into another dorm building, right,
- 1:39:55Speaker 3: something like that, right, just to be on the safe side, right,
- 1:40:00Speaker 3: But you can't you can't like freaking decide well, we're
- 1:40:03Speaker 3: gonna adjudicate this. We're gonna we're gonna perform the surgery
- 1:40:11Speaker 3: with this half full coffee mug anambradla advil, right, and
- 1:40:21Speaker 3: it's all gonna turn out just fine, right, Because that's
- 1:40:24Speaker 3: the tools you have, right as a school administrator. Those
- 1:40:28Speaker 3: are the tools you don't have. Subpoena power. You can't
- 1:40:31Speaker 3: freaking call witnesses, you can't freaking you can't make anybody
- 1:40:35Speaker 3: take a DNA test. You can't freaking do shit. Refer
- 1:40:41Speaker 3: it to the fucking police.
- 1:40:42Speaker 2: That's their job, yep, that's what they are there for.
- 1:40:49Speaker 3: Yeah, And I bet you if every fucking rape accusation
- 1:40:53Speaker 3: on campus then involved anything like probable cause okay was
- 1:40:59Speaker 3: automatically refer to the fucking police, there'd be few false allegations.
- 1:41:05Speaker 2: There'd be fewer allegations.
- 1:41:09Speaker 1: Because there would because like most of the most false
- 1:41:12Speaker 1: allegations are very infrequently proven false.
- 1:41:16Speaker 2: There they just don't go anywhere.
- 1:41:19Speaker 1: You know, like a not guilty verdict is not the
- 1:41:22Speaker 1: same as a she libation.
- 1:41:25Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, yeah.
- 1:41:27Speaker 7: But but but you look at it and it's like, yeah, no,
- 1:41:29Speaker 7: if every freaking alleged purported victim had to go the
- 1:41:36Speaker 7: whole nine yards through.
- 1:41:38Speaker 3: The justice system, right, you know, I'm sorry, but uh,
- 1:41:45Speaker 3: there are only so many Nancy or Lucy dicotires out
- 1:41:49Speaker 3: there who were willing to take it all the way,
- 1:41:54Speaker 3: all the way to perjuring themselves on the stand, right,
- 1:41:59Speaker 3: and and then having Marie Hennon like slap a file
- 1:42:05Speaker 3: full of evidence proving that they were lying the entire
- 1:42:09Speaker 3: time they were giving testimony, right as sorry Gion Gomeshi reference.
- 1:42:15Speaker 2: But yeah, yeah, so like.
- 1:42:21Speaker 3: There are only so many women that crazy to take
- 1:42:24Speaker 3: a false allegation that far right, And I'm sorry, but
- 1:42:31Speaker 3: like universities do not have and schools do not have
- 1:42:35Speaker 3: the tools to actually adjudicate these things, and like sweeping
- 1:42:41Speaker 3: it under the rug or under the union contract is
- 1:42:45Speaker 3: not acceptable. It's not acceptable. It's not acceptable when it
- 1:42:49Speaker 3: happens to a female student. It's not acceptable when it
- 1:42:52Speaker 3: happens to a male student. It's not acceptable, no matter
- 1:42:55Speaker 3: the sex of the teacher, or their sexual orientation or
- 1:42:59Speaker 3: their gender identity. It's not acceptable across the fucking board, right.
- 1:43:05Speaker 1: And.
- 1:43:07Speaker 6: No, Like, why are schools doing this? Why are they
- 1:43:13Speaker 6: taking this on? Why are they taking this on as
- 1:43:16Speaker 6: their responsibility.
- 1:43:17Speaker 3: Why are they being like, oh, well, you know, we
- 1:43:21Speaker 3: know she really raped that kid, but we can't we
- 1:43:26Speaker 3: just we signed a non disclosure agreement, so we just
- 1:43:31Speaker 3: can't say we just can't warn anybody else. Like, what
- 1:43:36Speaker 3: the what the fuck is that?
- 1:43:41Speaker 2: I don't know?
- 1:43:43Speaker 3: And I'm sorry, I'm sorry. A non disclosure agreement, as
- 1:43:45Speaker 3: far as I'm concerned, Right, a non disclosure agreement pertaining
- 1:43:49Speaker 3: to legal acts. Legal acts like Trump had sex with
- 1:43:54Speaker 3: a porn star and then he paid her to not
- 1:43:57Speaker 3: talk about it. She didn't accuse him of a crime,
- 1:44:02Speaker 3: she didn't accuse him of rape, she didn't accuse him
- 1:44:05Speaker 3: of anything. Right, It was just like oh yeah, maybe
- 1:44:10Speaker 3: they banged once and he's like, eh, you know, I
- 1:44:14Speaker 3: don't want you to talk about this. Well, that's fine,
- 1:44:16Speaker 3: that's about privacy, right, But non disclosure agreements to cover
- 1:44:21Speaker 3: up a crime, that's your agreement to cover up a
- 1:44:29Speaker 3: crime that should be illegal. That I think it, I
- 1:44:32Speaker 3: actually technically think it is illegal.
- 1:44:36Speaker 2: Yeah, I think so.
- 1:44:38Speaker 3: Right.
- 1:44:38Speaker 2: Well, let okay, so we're almost done here. But good
- 1:44:41Speaker 2: points raised.
- 1:44:42Speaker 1: So only only such thorough steps will break what almost. Guyora,
- 1:44:49Speaker 1: a law professor at the University of Utah who has
- 1:44:52Speaker 1: worked with Miller and Sesame, calls quote the complicity of
- 1:44:55Speaker 1: silence end quote. While the parameters of the problem may
- 1:44:59Speaker 1: be hard to Giora said he was stunned when he
- 1:45:03Speaker 1: recently published what he acknowledged is a niche book on
- 1:45:07Speaker 1: a West Virginia teacher exposed years late as a pedophile murderer.
- 1:45:13Speaker 1: A limited book sold out on Amazon, and his podcast
- 1:45:16Speaker 1: has now top one million views.
- 1:45:18Speaker 2: That tells you.
- 1:45:20Speaker 1: That tells you that what's happening is something that is
- 1:45:22Speaker 1: touching a chord.
- 1:45:23Speaker 2: He said.
- 1:45:24Speaker 1: It's so goddamn egregious what they have done to protect
- 1:45:28Speaker 1: people who do this. Lawmakers will have to break the
- 1:45:31Speaker 1: institutional complicity that surrounds this of THEIL or they'll just
- 1:45:36Speaker 1: be protecting.
- 1:45:37Speaker 2: The perpetrators, which is kind of like what they're doing now.
- 1:45:40Speaker 1: And also, you know this this comes from real clear investigations.
- 1:45:44Speaker 3: I'm pretty sure they're a good site.
- 1:45:47Speaker 2: Yeah, they are. They've done a lot of good work.
- 1:45:51Speaker 1: They're kind of like Project Veritas and Okeith Media Group, right,
- 1:45:54Speaker 1: they like go into places.
- 1:45:56Speaker 3: They were the first to close what's his name, Eric
- 1:46:02Speaker 3: Charamela's name, right, the Ukraine's quote whistleblower, Oh yeah, yeah,
- 1:46:09Speaker 3: yeah yeah. And they were also the people who identified
- 1:46:13Speaker 3: Igor Danchenko, who was the guy who provided almost all
- 1:46:18Speaker 3: the information that was published that Christopher Steele put in
- 1:46:23Speaker 3: the Steele dossier, right, And he'd been under FBI investigation
- 1:46:28Speaker 3: as a possible Russian spy between twenty ten and twenty twelve.
- 1:46:34Speaker 3: I believe, so. Yeah, No, like, he was a suspected
- 1:46:40Speaker 3: Russian spy and his name's all over that dossier and
- 1:46:44Speaker 3: the FBI just kept still using it to re up
- 1:46:47Speaker 3: their warrants to spy on Trump.
- 1:46:51Speaker 1: Huh, yeah, pretty based. And I don't know what do
- 1:46:57Speaker 1: you real quick before we end the show, were there
- 1:47:01Speaker 1: any revelations made in this piece or did you kind
- 1:47:05Speaker 1: of like suspect all this stuff already?
- 1:47:07Speaker 3: Oh yeah, no, all of this is like I mean,
- 1:47:10Speaker 3: like I wasn't aware of the fact that they don't
- 1:47:13Speaker 3: collect detailed information. I forget, I forget who they named
- 1:47:20Speaker 3: the law after. But but it is. It is a
- 1:47:25Speaker 3: federal law that educational institutions have to report sexual assaults
- 1:47:30Speaker 3: that are reported to them. They have to report them
- 1:47:32Speaker 3: to the Department of Education. And it's like Caitlin's Law
- 1:47:38Speaker 3: or some shit. But but yeah, no, I had no
- 1:47:43Speaker 3: idea that they didn't have to disclose any of the details,
- 1:47:48Speaker 3: like was this a teacher or a student, or a
- 1:47:52Speaker 3: staff member or an administrator, or was this like a
- 1:47:56Speaker 3: black person or a white person, like you know, like
- 1:48:00Speaker 3: they literally collect this data, and uh, the FBI collects
- 1:48:05Speaker 3: this data for the Uniform Crime Reporting System when whenever
- 1:48:13Speaker 3: it's available, right, you know, like maybe you don't know
- 1:48:16Speaker 3: that you were robbed by a black guy because he
- 1:48:18Speaker 3: was wearing a bella clava or something, right, But but
- 1:48:21Speaker 3: if that information is available, that gets reported. And and
- 1:48:26Speaker 3: I had no idea that the the does UCR version
- 1:48:35Speaker 3: of UCR was not collecting any of the relevant data.
- 1:48:41Speaker 3: You know, even on sex of the perpetrator and things
- 1:48:43Speaker 3: like that sex of them. So it's just like, oh,
- 1:48:48Speaker 3: you just have to like give them your raw number
- 1:48:50Speaker 3: of sexual assault complaints and that's it, right. Yeah, No,
- 1:48:57Speaker 3: it's that's that's not helpful.
- 1:49:01Speaker 2: No.
- 1:49:03Speaker 1: No, Well, I thought this was pretty interesting. I hope
- 1:49:07Speaker 1: that you guys found it interesting. Let us know what
- 1:49:10Speaker 1: you guys think about this in the comments. What do
- 1:49:12Speaker 1: you think about Well, I mean, I think it's obvious,
- 1:49:16Speaker 1: like getting rid of NDAs and this kind of there's
- 1:49:19Speaker 1: something up with the unions, Like I think that there's
- 1:49:22Speaker 1: too much desire for people to cover their own ass
- 1:49:25Speaker 1: to stay out of trouble then do the right thing.
- 1:49:28Speaker 2: And I think that's one of the problems.
- 1:49:29Speaker 1: And also are the way that we perceive sexual assault
- 1:49:33Speaker 1: of minors. We just look at it different and it's
- 1:49:36Speaker 1: a it's a mental block that we have to get past.
- 1:49:39Speaker 1: So let us know what you guys think about this
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